low output from laptop

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when I connected my stereo (tubelab simple se with volume control)
to my laptop and playing windows media player. with the volume maxxed out on both the laptop and the amplifier I get peaks of about 92dB.
with my cd player I get peaks of 104 dB without the amp all the way up.

Do other external sound cards/USB DAC's have higher output?
Thanks,
Paul
 
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