So you’re sick of the tinny sound from your phones earbuds and the lack of resonance in your cheap headphones, but don’t want to spend your life savings on a good pair? Enter BoomStick.

Now with the $99 BoomStick you can transform any headphones, earphones, or anything that uses an aux cable, into a high quality audio output. Using it’s intelligent algorithms the BoomStick augments the amplification of all the elements in a song  improving definition, clarity, and detail of the sound.

“The problem we’re trying to solve is that audio sucks,” This is what George Appling, BoomCloud 360‘s President and co-founder, said to The Verge. “If you put a CD in your car and there are four or eight speakers in the car, it’s pretty good. But if you stream Spotify on an iPhone, it’s terrible relative to that.”

We’ve all become complacent with average-to-poor quality audio as a result of extortionate prices for good speakers and headphones as well as portable devices awful mixing capabilities. Appling puts this down to our preference for ease over outcome: “People chose convenience and that makes sense, convenience is good.”

But Appling and his team feel it’s time we start pairing quality with convenience, at least when it comes to sound quality. The BoomStick is almost as easy to use as just plugging your headphones in, and at a price that will keep your wallet happy as well as your ears.

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The BoomStick looks like a dongle and plugs into the aux port of your player, you then plug your headphones/earphones into the aux-port in the BoomStick. The device can last for 14 hours before it needs charging using it’s microUSB port, so you can use your Android phone chargers with it too.

Is the quality affected enough to justify $99 though? Well it depends on how picky you are. If you don’t have the money to spend on a really good pair of headphones but crave better quality on your cheap ones then yes, considering it will transform any and all earphones and headphones even if you upgrade it still has use. However the quality difference won’t entirely change the listening experience, just make it noticeably nicer. So it’s up to you whether the price is justified.

The company claim that the device’s algorithms translate just as well to movies and gaming as well as listening to music. Although the BoomStick increases the gain BoomCloud 360 promise to maintain safe volume levels when listening through the device. The volume is only slightly increased, mostly due to the boost it gives to all the various elements of tracks.

You can pre-order the BoomStick now from www.boomcloud360.com. From the website you can also listen from a selection of 3 songs to the difference with and without the BoomStick.