Low-quality audio; sounds slightly bit-crushed (i've looked everywhere for a solution)

HI! I'm currently using the newest version of Animate on Windows 10, and I've been having issues importing a .wav file to animate with. I don't know if I'm putting it in the right place (I'm putting it on a layer and just making a ton of new frames), or if something is off. Whenever I try to listen to the audio, while animating or after exporting, it sounds bit-crushed and low-quality. When I just listen to the file itself, it sounds perfectly okay. I edited the audio in Premiere, and the output is 48,000 Hz, at 16 bit. I messed around with the properties in the file in the library in Animate, but no matter what I tried (speech, MP3, raw, etc), they all still didn't sound pure. I REALLY want to start making this cool video idea I have, but the crappy audio is holding me back. Any thoughts? (thank you so much!!)