Using leopard sound quality in itunes suddenly diminished

Hi All
Anyone else had this problem - I installed Leopard the other day - no worries all good up to now - today started listening to some music and sound quality is awful - podcasts, imports from cd collections, downloads from internet all affected - all sounds like bitrate has fallen down to 32 instead of 256 - any ideas what it might be or what to do????

Hello,
I too have noticed poor audio quality from itunes after upgrading to OS 10.5. Even though most of my songs on iTunes are Apple Lossless Format, it still sounds like it is very low bitrate...So much so that I can't listen to most things. My listening is done via headphones or multimedia speakers thru the audio output on a MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Interestingly enough, I did notice that the same songs played on Quicktime sounds a lot better than that on itunes. I've tried everything that I can think of to rectify the problem. Checked all my connections, checked eq and other audio features on iTunes, I even tried going into App/Utilities/AudioMidi application to try the aforementioned solution without any luck.
Please, please, please, if anyone has a solution or any idea how to solve this problem, let us know. I cannot live without my iTunes, I use it to study and I have finals coming up next week...and no iPod...
Thank you,
Desperate student seeking help

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