Audio Myths: Feedback Re-Entrant Distortion. Should We Worry?

There are many aspects of negative feedback in audio that are the subject of continued discussion. Jan Didden continues to debunk more Audio Myths. This article addresses re-entrant distortion. The idea is that, since negative feedback sends some of the distorted output signal back to the input, this already-distorted signal would only get more distorted by going through the nonlinear amplifier, over and over again.