Make your headphones sound better with the Boomstick

Steven Schroeder
Jan 4, 2016
2 min read

There isn't a better feeling than great sounding headphones. However, most consumers don't have the money to buy those great sounding headphones. So, how do you make a cheap headphone sound like a high-end headphone? Well, a company called BoomCloud 360 is trying to solve just that with their $99 BoomStick, which uses algorithms to enhance the sound of anything it's connected to. For just $99, the BoomStick is a small, light and has a rounded rectangular design plus a battery that can last 14 hours, which charges via MicroUSB. To use the BoomStick, you simply plug your headphones into it and plug that into whatever device you are listening to. Then, hit the circular button and you're all set. Whatever you're listening to will be enhanced by algorithms, such as music, videos and podcasts. According to The Verge, the sound you hear when you use the BoomStick isn't just louder, it also gets more detail than if you don't use it. The person behind that is Alan Kraemer, who is the companies CTO, and he wrote the algorithms for the BoomStick. Kraemer previously worked for SRS Labs, an audio company who licenced their technology to Samsung, Toshiba, LG and more. BoomCloud will be coming to "one of the big mobile telecom carriers" and it will also be coming to select brick-and-motar stores to try out for yourself. If you can't make it to the soon-to-be-announced stores, you can go to their website where they have pre-selected songs where you can toggle the BoomStick's sound enhancements on and off to hear the difference. According to BoomCloud, the BoomStick isn't the first and only product to use Kraemer's algorithms. "Headphones, speakers, cars, live bands, televisions, home computers, elevators. Anything that's making sound, our algorithms can make it better." He said. For only $99 the BoomStick sounds like a good deal if you have a pair of headphones that don't sound that great but don't have the money to upgrade to a more expensive pair for that better sound quality.