On 22 Apr 2005 13:34:33 -0700, "
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snip hundreds of lines of utter drivel

In summary
Almost everyone listens at low level most of the time. NFB wrecks
everybody's sound at all levels but most wretchedly at normal listening
levels.

That is utter garbage, and readily proven to be so by the classic
Baxandall cancellation test, where we sum an attenuated version of the
amp output with it's input. For any good amp (let's call it an SS amp
with lots of NFB), the resulting output is silence. Hence *at very low
levels* there is absolutely *no* degradtion of the sound.

As ever, Jute just makes up fairy stories.

An 'engineer' who designs an amplifier which does not work perfectly
without negative feedback is like a tailor cutting the suit
incompetently and then demanding that you walk like a cripple to make
it fit, so that everyone can admire the brilliance of your tailor.

Nothing is perfect, you cretin, and most especially not your
band-limited THD-rich bodge of a KISS amp.

SET amps don't *have* to have poor performance at a 1-watt output, but
yours is an abomination.

Negative feedback is a bodge. That is why it is despicable to the
ultrafidelista.

Negative feedback exists in *all* amplifiers, it's a useful tool, and
you are not an 'ultrafidelista', you are a charlatan and a joke.

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering