You can buy a cheap amp for around $100, but the ~$20 cMoy is way too cool to not try and build. Have I ever soldered before? No. Have I ever worked with protoboard, resistors, and op-amps? No. Have I ever even assembled anything of an electronic nature? No.  But I’ll muddle through.

Wish me luck.  My goal here is to get such good sound quality that I can curse myself for encoding all my MP3’s to 160Kbs instead of 192 or higher.