And... *sigh* the apparent memory leak problem is causing havoc with the Sound System Preferences. Either the Boom Audio sound output disappears OR it says it's 'Unknown'. Once it happens, it's persistent through system reboots. The workaround is stupid but it works: (1) QUIT Boom 3D app. (2) Boot Boom 3D app again. (3) Watch it ask to install its helper, again. Approve it. (4) You then get nonsense that you have to reboot your system. DON'T. But you'll find that Boom 3D isn't actually working at that point. SO! (5) QUIT Boom 3D a second time. (6) Boot Boom 3D a second time. ∑ = Tada. That buggy thing is working fine again. - - I've been attempting to get their [expletive] tech support to pay attention, but all I get are responses worthy of a BOT, named 'Amurtha'. VERY disappointing. But when I get time, I keep bugging the bot with new bug report information, whether it wants it or not. - - Then... nothing changes. I seriously doubt they have anyone doing testing over there at this point. AND the fact that they've chopped the price of the app indicates IMHO and experience that their head developer walked out and the apps gonna die. Or so I imagine. IOW: AWFUL tech support. What a shame. I love the app! . . . When it's not screwed up.
Huge memory leak problem. After about ~24 hours of use, the memory usage for this app is about 3 ~ 5 gb. I have no idea how this even passed your QA.
However, the app is truly amazing the way it enhances every sound. If not for the memory leak i would definitely recommend it to my fellow developers and friends.
It's still working on M1 Macs. However, it has a quirk whereby you wake your Mac and the sound is GaRbLeD very badly. I run into this occasionally. It only happens on M1 Macs. The solution is to Quit Boom 3D, then run it again. If that doesn't clear it, reboot your Mac. Boom 3D needs an overhaul to make it directly M1 compatible. I use it all day, every day.
Just got it (v 1.3.11) and still learning what it does and doesn't do, but the visual face is terrible. Dark gray tiny numbers against black isn't my idea of easy to read.
v1.3.11(029) is a minor update from the initial v1.3.11. It features: "Minor defect fixes." - - I use Boom all day, every day on both macOS 10.14.6 and iOS 14.4.2. It's excellent. I've found the manual EQ setup to be particularly useful for my office speaker setup. Over time, Boom 3D has had bugs and quirks. But they've always ironed them out and kept adding new features. It's one of my 'must have' apps.
TLDR: Great trial, horrible purchase. Do NOT buy!
I purchased this a week ago after the trial expired and it still says trial expired and doesn't let me use it. When I click on the account screen it is all white. When I try to do forgot password I get an error.
I emailed their support about this 7 days ago and still haven't heard a response. I DO NOT recommend giving these unscrupulous people your money.
I purchased this a week ago after the trial expired and it still says trial expired and doesn't let me use it. When I click on the account screen it is all white. When I try to do forgot password I get an error.
I emailed their support about this 7 days ago and still haven't heard a response. I DO NOT recommend giving these unscrupulous people your money.
I have a Desktop tower 2019 Mac Pro running macOS Big Sur version 11.2.3 and I have Boom3D version 1.3.11, on the Mac System Preferences, there is a SOUND Pane for Effects, Output, and Input. I use External Headphone port for OUTPUT and Boom 3D "used to" show up here and you could modify the output volume or mute it and even change the LEFT / RIGHT balance. boom 3D no longer appears here and sometimes it FAILS to work at all. Apple or Boom or better BOTH need to work together to get macOS and Boom Cooperating MORE Complete as Boom 3D sometimes will appear after Multiple REBOOTS --- unreliable stability but SOUNDS great when it does work,
The product is fine but I've been absolutely bombarded with constant pop ups for Boom ever since. They cover almost 25% of a page so it's very annoying and interferes with viewing. The company didn't know how to get rid of them. When I asked for a refund, I never heard from them again. Very poor customer service. I guess I will just have to uninstall it to get rid of all their marketing pop ups. It's a good product but I would never recommend buying it unless you like pop ups.
There is no evident memory leak with v1.3.8. I have it running at 181.8 MB RAM. There had been an intermittent bug where a restart would result in no sound driver loading, requiring a workaround of manually activating the Boom Audio drive in Sound system preferences. So far, that bug is not evident in v1.3.8. - - For me, this is a Must Have addition to macOS as it is so useful and successful at improving my Mac's audio. The devs keep improving it and ironing out occasional bugs. I wouldn't use my Macs without it. Oh and its sound driver allows you to record sound alongside screen recordings, something macOS on its own does not do. As a beneficial, essential app, I give it 5 stars.
HUGE MEMORY LEAK on macbook. App starts at 33mb memory usage, and I have screenshots of it using more than 4GB (!!!!) of memory after running a whole day. Authors dismissed my bug reports and didn't give any other solution other than to reinstall it (and go through the stupid "tuning showoff" every time). Obviously it didn't help.
It noticeably lowers the output volume when it's running in the background, regardless of whether it's "on" or "off". The only way to fix it is to quit the app.
They company does not offer a refund, stating customers have a 30-day trial before purchasing. Fair enough. Don't be like me and impulse buy. Make sure it works to your liking before purchasing.
Tried the trial version on my MacBook with my Bluetooth JBL speaker connected. It crashed the first time. When I got it working the equalizer had no effect at all when playing a song. Kept getting annoying pop-ups. Uninstalled it. Then had to use a utility to hunt down files the uninstall left behind. Very poor.
I buyed a Senheisser 260 HD headphones and I was kind of dissapointed on them because they didn't sound loud enough... a friend suggested me to buy an external portable HiRes amp, and I tried to find some virtual amp for MacOS... and so I stumbled with Boom3D...installed the try version and ... I felt in love with my new headphones!!! they sound absolutely perfect thanks to the Boom3D amp and 3d surround effect!! I think I had never buy an app so quickly in my life! The best 12$ spent ever!!!
yes the charge every so oftenn is anoying but it is one of best music app players i enjoy and play the most at home next to Megaseg Pro..and i can use it with my Audio Quest Dragonfly..go together like steak and lobster.
I would like to share my opinion about the app. This app is really amazing. Using only ordinary earphone, I hear my musics and movies with incredible sounds. The 3D sound effect also fantastic.
I have used this both on Catalina 10.15.3 and Mojave 10.14.6.
I noticed when using Boom 3D my Mac scrubs/skips through videos online via safari and via quicktime and music on iTunes, freezes my chrome and unsyncs audio on Firefox and safari. audio is also has a lot of static in it when these errors happen if I can get anything to play. I have been through apple support thinking it was an issue with my mac. I closed boom 3D when I had the audio issue and what do you know no issues. if you application is as buggy as it is please fix all the issues that your app is causing. I don't have any log to provide but I just want to know that you have made me think that I had to buy a new Mac because of these errors.
I have also had to reset my mac multiple times because of these issues loosing all my data that I had on my Mac. your program was also slowing down my Mac quite a lot.
the only explanation I have is that boom 3D was causing all the issues because since not using it I haven't had the issues pop up again.
This is one of the best designed programs !
i've tested Boom3D: Volume Booster and EQ at a friend's Macbook. Of all the apps, utilities, and programs I have ever used, this one takes the cake for highest level of perfection. Somebody has totally obsessed over this, getting everything right, down to the smallest detail, as if the fate of the universe depended upon it. If you are at all tech-oriented, you are going to be impressed with the level of detail and sheer amount information they have managed to pack into Boom3D: Volume Booster and EQ.
Having problems again with Boom 3D sporadically crashing without any apparent cause. I send a problem report (generated by the app) to the developer every time. Even when I include an email or have attempted to reach their support team, the resonse is #crickets. No one's ever responded to me about reported issues. Guess the team is a little on the small side!
In general, I like this app and have been using it since it came out. That said, I sometimes experience the same bugs that I thought Boom would have ironed out by now: odd metallic distortion overall at times, distortion in the bass frequencies (not headphone/earbud dependent), the hair-trigger button settings on the equalizer (why can't I just type in a number instead of using the slider???), and the nag emails when I already have the product.
Taking two points off for persistent, erratic app issues.
Was great until it stopped working with Mojave (10.14.6). As soon as I connect a BT device, it crashes and can't even be reopened. I have to shut bluetooth off to be able to open Boom 3D again. I'm using the latest version.
The set up often needs considerable adjusting when shifting from one source of music (DVD, You Tube, on-line radio). But when set up properly the results are good in most cases. Recently, however, when Boom 3D is on it intermittently shuts down the sound system on my MacBook. Nothing works: MacBook speaker, earphones, bluetooth speaker. I then need to reboot my system. I have read other reviews indicating widespread similar problems, especially with the more recent versions of 3D. So for now I'm disabling the app. and ignoring the almost endless steam of invitations to upgrade to the newest version. I'll try a new version in a few months to see if problems have been resolved.
This software nags you with a dialog to call home even after activation. You get spammed by discount offers to upgrade every few days. I understand many developers in the apple ecosystem take advantage of the self serving nature thats common today, but these guys firmly have crossed the line.
I've been using Boom 3D on my Macbook Pros and Airs since it first came out. It's reliable, easy to adjust, and performs remarkably well. The Ambient and 3D settings are mind-blowing. I haven't experienced the problems others have with payments. Have I made two, one for each of my Macs? I don't think so. But even if I did, it would be worth $20 to get control over my audio, better than the native Apple controls.
Since I switched to the latest MacBook Pro Touch Bar the Boom 3D application is constantly crashing.
Every time I need to use my AirPods for a call on Slack or FaceTime or any time I use my AirPods for any kind of call the app will just crash and even if I restart it just crashes straight away again.
I really enjoy using the Boom 3D but they need to fix all of those bugs it is so frustrating using it when every time I need to make a call it crashes. And I do make a lot of calls using my MacBook Pro.
WORKAROUND for distorted System sounds:
Recent versions of Boom 3D have introduced the potential for distorted system sounds such that, oddly, sounds start to play part-way through then play the start of the sound briefly thereafter.
I nailed the problem down to the Boom 3D Setting "Sleep when idle". If you get this distortion, UNcheck that setting. The problem is gone. No other culprits were found to be involved in my system.
If for some reason you find a need to use 'Sleep when idle', the workaround it to go to:
-> System Preferences/Sound/Sound Effects/"Play sound effects through:"
Choose in the popup menu "Internal Speakers". The distortion is gone.
I've passed the problem source and workaround to the developer in order for them to be able to help users in the future. [The distortion problem had flummoxed them as well.]
I Too had to Give up on this app after a couple months like others have stated here. 1) Too many issues with out of Sync Audio & Video on YouTube... Had to constantly quit and relaunch to get audio in sync. Had to wait for update to fix this. 2) Compatibility issues and Latency Issues with Pro Video & Audio Editing Apps. You have to Quit out of it to resolve these. 3) Blows the crap out of Audio if you have HQ Music file such as FLAC or AIFF audio files. 4) Required constant adjustments to EQ if you have Audio from a wide variety of Sources & Quality. I found UnInstalling it and Not using preferable to all the issues with it running. 5) Finally, If you just use it with Average quality iTunes MP3s and AC3 files then it works well, but easier to just Use iTunes Custom EQ Settings than to flip back and forth with this thing and all its Quirks.
I've been using Boom since it came out. I'm about to give up on it, though. The latest version, 1.2.7, crashes so many times a day it's absurd. Sometimes it completely kills all sound output from my MBP; only doing a restart restores sound output. There's a dialog box after the app crashes that supposedly submits a bug report to the developers. I've sent dozens of these, which include my name and email address and gotten no response. I contacted them directly through support on their website and got only a robo-response and nothing further.
I'm not sure if the bug is completely Boom's fault or if there's some bad juju with the app and Mojave 10.14.x, but I'm fed up with the crashing and the fact that the developers can't be bothered to respond to bug/crash reports.
I'd backgrade to the previous version if I could; had no problems with that version.
Otherwise, I generally have to leave it disabled. Save your money for the next big iteration of Boom 3D, folk, assuming they get the kinks worked out. And I'm not even speculating on the app's future path with Catalina..
The sound is an improvement compared to the old version of Boom, but I became fed up with all the messing about where sound would randomly be lost if playing a video or I plugged in a microphone.
If you listen to the radio through their new update the volume is suddenly screaming loud and very hard to control, so in the end I just uninstalled it. It became particularly unreliable when using a line out cable from the Mac Pro to the monitor speakers, but there are no issues when I simply use the system sound options.
One perk I've discovered from using Boom 3D is that its audio driver can be used to ADD Mac audio recording to macOS 10.14 Mojave screen recording. Apple has NOT allowed their audio driver to be used, meaning that all Apple provides is silent recording. (Thank the RIAA and MPAA).
If you bring up the screen recording interface (Command-Shift-5) and go under Options, choose your Microphone to be "BoomAudio". Start recording the screen and all your Mac audio will be included. This is an EXCELLENT replacement for all but the most powerful screen recording apps, including beloved defunct SnapzPro X, rest in peace.
Since Mojave 10.14 there are audio dropsouts every 7 minutes in Boom 2 and Boom 3D!.
Begin this month i had a skypecall with the helpdesk/maker of this software. I have record also a short movie moment where you can hear what happens. i sent this to the helpdesk.
The problem is only with both Boom versions., and it's not there when Boom is off! I had also a call with Apple helpdesk and they say it's a problem from the maker of Boom because it's only happens when Boom is on! The helpdesk checked also some settings.
Since that call with Boom helpdesk and earlier some emails they don't give me a solution for this problem.
I have tried many Apple options on my Mac.
In our skypcall they recognized this problem! What should be a solution of this audio dropouts every 7 minutes?
When it works, which isn't often - it's fantastic. Sometimes plays audio from youtube. Won't play from iTunes. Restarting laptop and options to use Boom3D as output and input in sound preferences...disappear. Spent far too long to try to make this work. Unfortunately I purchased it during one of the early times when it was working.....regretting that decision now.
If I want to upgrade, I will navigate to your website and do so. Half star rating due to nag-ware that never quits. I have purchased your software, now let me enjoy it in peace. One should not thank customers by nagging them 24-7.
