Itunes 8.2 Scratchy Bass

When playing a any song on itunes, it sounds scratchy on bass parts. But when I use finder to play the song using quicklook it sounds fine. Why is that. This appear after I installed several apps including: Coversutra, Pixelmator, Magnifique, Yazu and DoubleTwist. I bought and installed all yestarday and now I realized that it had affected itunes. Is there a way to fix this? By resetting it, could it fixed, if so how do i reset it? Thanks a lot.

Well, it's not super easy on a Mac. Usually, if you download the file that you originally used to install the app, there may be an uninstall option, too. If not, I use some shareware called CleanApp:
http://www.synium.de/products/cleanapp/index.html
This removes software pretty well.
Hope this helps!

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bigblue11 wrote:
Thank you for trying to help with those screenshots but they're not in English, and not the easiest to view.
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Just bought a brand new Mac Pro and have researched this issue extensively. I have the exact same issue. I'm not convinced it's just an iTunes thing... but the people with iTunes are the ones with the complaints.
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Thanks for the reply. I thought I was going deaf.
I opened the same file in QuickTime and the bass drum, the cymbals, the bass were a little better [not much], but rest is messed it up.
The same file in VLC it's way way better than QuickTime. Loud and clear.
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