Setting sound level on Mac

I have been trying to set the sound level on a Mac.
But even though I set the sound level to 1 - the Mac sound
bar always goes to 70% of the total volume.
There is no way to set the sound level to anything lower than
70%

try this - paste into your messge window and hit return after
each line:
_sound.soundLevel = 7
put _sound.soundLevel
_sound.soundLevel = 2
put _sound.soundLevel
you should see:
-- 2
-- 7
if you use 'beep' after each setting you should hear it
change too.
Good luck

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