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How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier

How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier
Chu Moy designed a very popular headphone amplifier that’s easy to build, and it can be built small enough to fit in a pocket, power supply and all. It’s powerful enough to drive very inefficient headphones to thunderous volumes from even weak sources, and it sounds excellent considering that you can build a bare-bones CMoy amp for just US$20, and a pretty nice amp for under $50. Considering that the cheapest of the worthy commercial amps is $100 and most of them are in the $200+ range, this is a very worthwhile cost difference. For these reasons, I think that the CMoy pocket amplifier is an ideal project to get started in audio DIY. This article is written for the beginner DIYer, though if you just want a guide to building this particular amp, you can skip to the parts or assembly sections. If you are a raw newbie and don’t yet have any tools, see the companion article, Getting Started in Audio DIY.

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Exportar Configuraciones y Ajustes CUBASE Si usted desea copiar la configuración actual de Cubase/Nuendo a otro ordenador es necesario copiar la carpeta de preferencias al nuevo ordenador. En la carpeta de preferencias de Cubase/Nuendo se encuentran guardados los ajustes y la configuración de usuario. En este artículo también encontrará una lista con todos los archivos que se encuentran dentro de la carpeta de preferencias y los ajustes que estos guardan. Nota: Puede ser que algunos de los archivos listados abajo no estén disponibles en Cubase Essential/Studio/Artist/AI/LE. Así encuentra el folder de preferencias: Mac OS X"/Users/<su nombre de usuario>/Library/Preferences/[Programa]"PC Windows XP"Disco duro\Documents and Settings\<su nombre de usuario>\Application data\Steinberg\[Programa]"PC Windows Vista / Windows 7"Disco duro\Users\<su nombre de usuario>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\[Programa]" En Windows este folder se encuentra oculto. Regresar

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