New MBP max speaker volume much lower than 2008 MBP

I have just bought a new (black keyboard) MBP. I still have an older 2008 MBP of nearly identical specification (which had started to become unreliable).
The speakers on the old MBP when turned up to maximum, are about 10dB louder than those on the new MBP. This makes the new MBP far too quiet.
I did migrate apps to the new one, but there are no hacks or anything like that.
Is there anything (apart from the System Prefs panel and the application volume control) that would be limiting the speaker volume on the new MBP? Or is it intrinsic to the new model? (I hope not). Happens across all audio apps, including the "bips" from the keyboard volume control keys.
DN

Yes. The old MBP is much louder. I have the "decibel" app on my iPhone which is surprisingly accurate, and playing the same track on iTunes on the two machines shows a clear difference in output volume (max). Between 8 and 10dB. It's clearly obvious just by ear, too.
The old MBP started behaving erratically (no drag and drop, bluetooth disappeared altogether) and since I'm away from home and the laptop is (in NASA-speak) "mission critical" I bought a new (very pretty) one while I could still transfer apps from the old to the new. Subsequently I was able to fix the problems on the old one (thanks to this list) however, my partner wants the old one (as a Windows-convert wannabe) so the older machine is going to be put to good use.
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