Fluctuating volume and sound quality?

Windows 7.  HP Pavilion Entertainment PC.  Bose speaker system.  Sound seems fine through the iPod Nano and Bose speakers, but fluctuates and seems weirdly compressed through iTunes on the laptop.  Don't remember it ever being that way.  New version of iTunes to blame?  Virus?

Hello there,
It sounds like your iTunes volume not functioning correctly when playing through your speakers, but your iPod Nano seems to work just fine with it. I would first check the equalizer to see if it is set to something unexpected in iTunes with this article and verify that your audio is set up correctly:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Adjust the sound quality
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12334
If the issue persists or that is not the cause of it, I would next use the folliwng to help troubleshoot audio playback in iTunes on Windows:
iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Audio does not play or plays incorrectly
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1362
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

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