Poor Audio - Filtered?

Hi, in the last few days i've noticed that quite a few songs i have recently imported to itunes are coming out in poor quality, with certain frequencies relating to parts (horns and backing vocals especially) seeming filtered out, almost as if it was going through a high-pass filter. not all songs are like this, just newly ripped ones. the only recent setting changes i made was to consolidate my library - could this have this effect??? thanks fot your time!!!

Consolidating shouldn't have any affect as consolidating only copys the file to the "iTUnes Music" folder.
If your not happy with the sound you need to check the sound settings in iTUnes AND quicktime, check your sound card device, maybe update it. You may also want to try importing in a different format or higher bitrate.

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