[HanzoH]

I have an HP Envy TouchSmart Notebook, with Beats Audio. I usually listen to music with this and a pair of Senal smh-1000 headphones. Recently I clumsily stepped on the laptop and I believe this is what broke the headphone jack. Audio from the speakers works fine. I can get some sound with the headphones but it is very distant sounding and not full like it was. I really enjoy the beats audio and think it sounds much better than my old run of the mill laptop audio did. I would buy a USB audio driver, but its my understanding that that would decrease the sound quality because the usb would not use the beats audio.
 
What can I do to get my old headphone audio quality back? Are there high quality USB adapters that will be just as good? Should I just get a new laptop (I bought laptop insurance that is still in effect that  covers pretty much everything)? Pay to get it fixed?
 
Thanks guys!

 

[PETEREK]

You could just buy a USB DAC and then have a 3.5mm jack again, and probably better audio quality too.

 

[mdh994]

Buy a fiio x3, then you can use it as a mp3 player aswell as a dac, sound is perfect for me, and you also have a bass and treble udjust. just something to consider.

 

[PETEREK]

All beats audio does is boost the bass and treble db, so you could use any DAC and then just EQ to have the same sound.