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Systm Shows You How to Build a CMOY

By: Andreas Ødegård on December 9, 2008 2:53 AM

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As a huge podcast fan I find Revision 3 to be God's gift to podcast users. For those that don't know, Revision 3 is basically a TV channel based on podcasts, with weekly high quality video podcasts covering a lot of things. Tekzilla is the most known one for tech users such as ourselves, but they also have several other shows - including Systm.

Systm is a show that covers DIY. They've had episodes on everything from waterproofing thumbdrives with epoxy to scanning objects in 3D with a laser pointer. The newest episode however features something much closer to home for us on ABi - how to build a CMOY amp. CMOYs are basically the cheapest, easiest DIY headphone amps you can make and for those of you in a country with radio shack stores it should be a very nice first project for anyone that wants to go into DIY. Hit the link below to watch it being done on Systm.

[Systm Episode 81 - Soldering Your Own Headphone Amp]

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Comments

IsaacBoehman on December 9, 2008 8:49 AM

Awesome! Can't wait to try this. Thanks for the link :)

NoDaddy on December 9, 2008 2:43 PM

What's wrong with you?? anythingbutipod and you use the iTard lingo (podcast)?? There's nothing *casted. It's an mp3 download.

STOP

[and promote FLAC more intensely]


Merry Christmas

Johan Krüger-Haglert on December 9, 2008 10:43 PM

This one is cheaper:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.14823

It may not be as good, I don't know, but it's much cheaper, you don't have to do anything yourself and it's also much smaller.

Chris on December 11, 2008 1:30 AM

Johan, sometimes doing it yourself is part of the fun! I plan to give it a shot not only because I want a headphone amp (I already have the Fiio E3 you linked to) but also because it's really rewarding to build something yourself then use it.

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