ITunes 7 Sounds Crunchy and Thin

After moving to iTunes 7 all my songs sound crunchy and thin. Even at low volume. I don't have these sound issues when playing songs off the CD. . Even the pod-casts that I have on my computer sound different. Again, crunchy and thin. ( So I think this rules out a hardware problem, speakers, headphones etc )
This leaves me with an iTunes 7 problem.
Any suggestions?

I read this somewhere online and it worked... I hadn't used itunes in months because my videos were playing distorted sounds (kinda choppy) I stopped buying tv shows and everything because I couldn't fix the problem. I updated to 7.0 and it was better, but now even my mp3's were distorted. So, I tried everything from this site and nothing worked until I did a search on dogpile for "Itunes distorted sounds." Here is what it said to do (from dukeybabes):
"Open up QuickTime and in the Audio tab, lower the sound quality settings to 48Khz/16 bit ( I used 32Khz).
If this doesn't work, try different combinations of settings (but still keep them a little lower). This has worked for me.
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