Audio too loud

It seems that setting my volume at 1 is loud enough and inside the applications I use (World of Warcraft etc.) I have to lower the master volume.
I don't know where to look to fool around with my amplification, audio output settings besides System preferences > Sound.
I am using an iMac 24 inch with internal speakers.

I believe one of the recent updates seemed to increase the volume levels dramatically to how they were oringially set - although others seems to be getting no sound at all after the update.
Probably not much help for you to fix it, but hopefully helps to understand why.

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