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I'm a black and white kind of guy...

I think if feedback is good, you should use as much as possible. Use a million dB if you can. If feedback is bad, you shouldn't use any. I admire people that stick to their guns and go all out, in whichever direction they desire. On the other hand, I really don't care for the approach that "a little bit of feedback is good, but not too much". Kind of sounds like a chef salting a soup. There are some phenomena when two opposing effects must be balanced, but this happens fairly rarely, in my experience.

The proof, as always, is in the pudding. I've heard some great sounding amps that used feedback, although I think they were all tube amps. It seems that feedback has less of a negative sonic effect on tube circuits for some reason. But I've always wondered what those amps would sound like if they didn't use feedback (you'd probably have to do an extensive re-design of course). I don't think I've ever heard a well executed tube amp without feedback. Have you? Could be interesting...

Cheers,
Charles Hansen

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