Audio very distorted macbook Pro Retina

Ok, so I started noticing this problem about two weeks ago. Basically my sound quality on my mac, regardless of the output device (tried it on many including internal speakers and sounds the same), has been slowly degrading for the past two weeks. The reason I know is because I've been listening to this one song for the past two weeks, and as of today it sounds much more fuzzy and distorted than before. Just overall lower quality. Then I went off of iTunes and onto SoundCloud to test if it was system-wide, and sure enough it played just as distorted and fuzzy there as on iTunes. I don't know if it is hardware or software related, but It is more likely to be software. I've tried resetting PRAM and reparing disk permissions and the disk itself, and neither worked. I was wondering if there was another way to do it that would prove to be successful.
Thanks!
--Alex

I just ordered this due to the very same issues. I expect delivery before the month is out so I will update with my experience as well. This is so frustrating not being able to simply connect your guitar to your pc and use the preloaded Garage Band!

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My MacBook Pro Retina has been running very sluggish lately. It used to be so consistently fast and now it is just so sluggish.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) (Verified)
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BANK 0/DIMM0
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EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
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Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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Thank you.

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