Sounds problem on my intel iMac

I have just receive my new speakers (uCubes by UltraLink) and I have a little problem... The sounds play very well on my bootcamp part but when I go to my OS X (Lion), I put the volume on max and it play like the halft of the maximum bootcamp (windows 7) volume... something's not right ?

Check Audio Midi Setup (in Utilities).

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