Hear

Mac user here: Hate to make comparisons, but Hear beats Boom 2 hands down. Boom 2's foundation is based on Sound Flower which is fundamentally flawed in the use of a virtual audio source that doesn't play well with Facetime. If you need an audio boost and use your system professionally, Prosoft's Hear is the only way to go. Maybe more development for the Mac taskbar for ease of use and a Safari extension to bridge the gap there would be a great improvement.

Can’t listen to music without it! Brings digital music alive. Makes it sound like the good ole Hi-Fi analog days. When can I get the app for my iPhone or iPad?????

I typically use PC's so I was disappointed that there was such little audio control built in to my MacBook unibody. After some serious searching, I came upon Hear. This is the ultimate audio control application for the Mac. It provides the only way I know of controlling levels when using the optical output on my MacBook. I had a little trouble with installation (it kept asking me to register), but a quick call to Prosoft customer support resolved my problems quickly. Michael, the Prosoft engineer who helped me, quickly identified the problem and offered a solution. It's a great piece of software that I'd pay for again.

I recently downloaded Joe Soft's software, Hear. And. I have to tell you all, that after my day job, I sit in front of my computer for hours, writing. Sure, I know, Hear electronically processes the music streaming down from the hard drive, what else do people expect in this age of digital, technology? We have to face it, analog technology, as beautifully warm as it is, is a thing, of the past, and, believe me, the fastest processors slowly are approximating the clarity and high warmth of analog, without the sizzle trailing behind the open sound. Anyway. Hear is an amazing product which (still nascent, experimenting) is one of the first to play with the sound of compressed or uncompressed, digitally magical sound. To cut pragmatically, things short, purchase it. You won't be unsatisfied. It is the only program available today which heightens the sound of any application streaming through your (now) poor sounding Mac. Just, buy it. I Promise you, you won't be sorry...especially after you learn how to unlock the sound potential it has inside, all the available settings you can muster to play with manually and soon arriving to perfection inside your ears becoming highly sensitive, to bad sound!

For such an inexpensive app the results are wonderful. Even without fiddling with the many individual controls, the presets for diifferent types of sound and music so incredibly enhanced my iTunes collection played through the cheapest of external speakers that they sounded as though they had cost ten times as much. I've only just bought it and look forward to finding out what else it can do. One of the best apps I ever bought for the Mac.