#BOOM 2 APP IN EAR HEADPHONES FOR MAC#
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The results were positive when we used cheap headphones such as the Brainwavz Omega, but as the quality of the headphones improved, the impact of the effects diminished. We tried it with Oasis' Familiar to Millions live album and an Iron Maiden live concert.

Try playing a couple of live concert recordings to hear the difference. Boom's effects widen the sound quite a bit, giving it a more atmospheric feel. For one thing, the difference in the playback on your iOS device is much more noticeable when you're using a cheap headset. So, does Boom really work? Yes, but with some caveats.

#BOOM 2 APP IN EAR HEADPHONES FREE#

( Also see: The Best Free MP3 Players for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) Another option lets you shake the device to switch to the next song or play/ pause the current song. The app's settings menu has a few basic options such as crossfade (when switching tracks, one song fades out while the other fades in), visualiser, and a sleep timer that lets you turn off music after a certain amount of time.

Tapping that takes you to the effects menu, where you can select from a number of equaliser presets, and increase or decrease the intensity of Boom's 3D Surround effect. When you play a song in Boom, a large Effects button appears on screen. If you use a music streaming service such as Apple Music, Boom marks all songs as part of that service with a neat label. Boom also does well to mark whether each song is stored on the phone, or is being streamed off the Internet.

The app uses an eye-pleasing dark theme, and ensures that key elements such as controls, effects, and song names are easy to spot. Before we jump into that, it's worth talking about the app's design. This might sound a bit gimmicky, but having tried Boom's effects via a wide variety of headphones, we feel that the core feature actually works. Because of iOS limitations, this will only apply to music being played in the app, and not any other apps you're using. The key feature is its effects, which promise to offer a surround sound effect on any headphones. While the Mac app offers an equaliser and a tool to bump up the volume for everything you do on OS X, Boom for iOS is a full-fledged music player instead.

#BOOM 2 APP IN EAR HEADPHONES FOR MAC#

The makers of the hugely successful Boom for Mac recently released an iOS counterpart, but there are some differences between the two.

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