Volume to TV Very Low?

I have a current gen Mac Mini I'm using as a media center. I'm connecting it to a Viewsonic 720p LCD via VGA cable for the video, and PC-Sound In for the audio. However, I'm finding the volume, even when the Mac Mini is set to max, far too low to hear well.
As examples, with the TV volume set to 15, my cable box (connected via HDMI) is just fine and my PS3 (also via HDMI) is too loud (I need to turn the TV volume down to 10). By contrast, TV volume set to 30 can sometimes not be enough for the Mac Mini (of course it doesn't help that music and sound effects are always much louder than dialog! )
Has anyone had this problem and figured out a solution? Is there a hidden setting to go beyond the standard max volume out on the Mini? Would switching from single RCA PC-Audio out to a digital cable offer any improvement in volume?
(I have external speakers set up, but I'm trying to figure out why the Mini is literally half as loud as the cable, and a third as loud as the PS3).

I have a mini connected to a TV, sound is from the mini's headphone jack to twin RCA (left and right) audio in on the TV. Sound levels are broadly the same as other sources. Given the mini outputs sufficient voltage to drive headphones, it should provide more than adequate output for a line-level input such as the one I think you're describing on your TV.
There's no hidden additional volume control - the sounds preference pane is all you have.

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