Audio Quality suddenly failing speakers or card?

Hello
Recently the audio quality if my music files is awful
some songs are distorted, just a rasping sound from speakers
some songs, things like back up vocals, guitar, etc. sound "far away" / not as prominent as they are supposed to, sometimes non existent as opposed to how i know the song is supposed to sound.
but then there are other songs that sound just fine, its confusing.
I am working on narrowing down the prob.
so far i have played known problem songs on another computer, and all sounded fine, so i know my files are okay.
so that leaves either some card in my machine or speakers themselves.
I have those clear Harmon Kardon vertical looking speakers + clear woofer w/blue light.
any suggestions?
I dont wanna go out and buy new speakers if thats not cause of prob.
thnaks
wayne

Wayne:
One way to test if it's your Mac hardware or iTunes is to try to play the song in another program. Go to your music folder and select a single track. Control-click (or right-click) to bring up the contextual menu. Select Open With... and when it pops out, select Quicktime.
If you still have the problem, then you've at least elimated iTunes from the source of the problems.
Have you attached your powered speakers to another computer?
Have you checked the physical connection between your Mac and the speakers?
You don't list what type of Mac you have - do you have sufficient RAM? Are you running any other programs at the same time as iTunes that may be eating up your available RAM? Have you tried rebooting?
Please keep us updating on your progress.
Lita

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