QuickTime Player Sounds MUCH BETTER!?

I downloaded a YouTube video, mp4.  By chance the original download was still on the desktop so I hit play -- AND IT SOUNDED GREAT!
Then in iTunes I played it and it was very MUFFLED in comparisson.
I turned off the equalizer but still the  QuickTime Player version sounded much, much better!
I never had compared the sound quality of the videos like this before, it was just a 'by chance' accidental discovery...
Is there anything I can do to make iTunes sound more like my  QuickTime Player?

Thanks, sberman, that's a good commons sense suggestion...and I had previously tried that.
I HATE to admit this but it might have been my sound settings. The volumn on iTunes was only half way.
Now after turning iTunes up full volumn and setting Get Info on the song to be as high as possible, it sounds - more or less -- just like the  QuickTime Player....
Oh well.....sometimes things are as simple as that.

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