Quote Originally Posted by Poultrygeist View Post
Negative feedback is used to lower distortion and in the case of solid state is often the only thing keeping the transitors from exploding. Triode amps OTOH do not employ negative feedback. Negative feedback is not a problem if you don't mind a 2 dimentional sound stage and time smearing.


Depends on how it is used. Some SS amps have low negative feedbak. During the spec wars they used large amounts of global feedback until someone discovered and measured TIM and then most designers reduced there amounts of feeedback and how it was applied.

Interesting that we are replying to a 5 year old thread. I hope the OP has found something by now.