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if you spend a lot of time listening to iTunes I'm going to tell you a few simple things you can do to improve your audio experience first off invest in some better headphones there's no miracle that's gonna make V sound any better scene it has a roundup of great choices under $50 that will provide a night-and-day difference in audio quality a good in ear headphone or over the ear headphone will also help lock out external noise so that you can hear details in your music and not have to turn up to full volume to drown out distractions if you already have headphones figured out try the sound enhancement setting in iTunes open up iTunes preferences and select the tab for playback you'll see a sound enhancer box that you can check on and adjust to your taste moving the slider up seems to make the stereo effect a little bit more dramatic audiophiles may turn up their nose but if you like what you hear just go for it while you're here you'll also notice a box for soundcheck that will automatically adjust the volume between songs so that you're not racing for the volume control every time a quiet song comes on personally I keep this off but if it fixes a problem for you you should use it it's especially handy if you have music playing in your office I should also mention the iTunes equalizer you think this would be in the playback menu but it's actually over here under window open it up and you'll see a 10-man graphic equalizer that you can tweak to your heart's desire you can start with a list of presets like rock hip-hop or classical or you can make a manual adjustment to any of them and dial in things just the way you like now one cool trick that few people know about in iTunes is that you can actually assign different EQ presets to different songs if you know that you want a little extra EQ when Led Zeppelin comes on here's how to do it select a song or group of songs and then select get info from the file menu under the options tab you'll see a setting for equalizer preset along the drop down menu of all the different presets hit OK and now whenever those songs come on they'll sound just the way you like so there you go those are my tips for fine-tuning your iTunes audio experience more tips like this head over to how to cnet.com I'm Donnell bell thanks for watching