Canon 7D RAW quality

These photos were taken with my Canon 7D. I've heard that LR3 isn't very good with 7D raws, but this is so disappointing. Look at the gradient in the christmas balls …
Can anyone please tell me how to fix this? I love the LR workflow, and also like the RAW flexibility.
I'm on LR3.2 Camera Raw 6.2.
I'll be happy to upload the raw file for anyone who will give it a go.

I don't know if "gradient" is the right term. I've looked up "posterisation" and that might be it.
I shoot in AdobeRGB.
I have exported two new sRGB close-ups of the problem for you to look at, one from the original JPEG, one from the RAW-file.
From JPEG:
From RAW:
Raw settings (default):
JPEG settings (default):

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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Zach.
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Sofia Pokrzywa wrote:
Neither Bridge CS6 or Lightroom 5.7 can recognize Canon's raw file (Canon Camera 60D).
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