Right speaker muffle on new MBP 15'' c2d

I just got the new MBP 15'' 2,16 c2d and notice that the right peaker is muffle compare to the left...has anyone experience this ??? Is this totally hardware or is there something that can be done ??? Thanks

This has nothing to do with balance....yeah, you can minimize the problem by changing shifting the problem more to one side to '' even it out ''. This is a hardware problem, because if you plug it to an external speaker then everything is fine so the internal speaker is the problem here...i was hoping it could be solve with a firmware update

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