Wasn't the Schiit brand a subjectivist favourite?
Just wondering if we're going to see complaints that ASR has "ruined" Shiit...
I do wonder if on that front the extra distortion from the multibit designs ends up doing something kinda like what a tape deck does - the distinct nonlinearities end up doing something that some find pleasing to the ear - "euphonic distortion" I've heard it called? I've never heard one in person, so I couldn't tell you myself. I wager that other than confirmation bias and similar, that would be what it is. My bet's on confirmation bias, though.
Do you mind sharing some thought on that? I have came across the anti-negative-feedback comments a few times from several unrelated places/circles. However i don't understand the rationale behind it.
There's a grain of truth behind it, actually...
Too much negative feedback can do strange things to the phase response of an amplifier stage, and in worst case scenarios can cause oscillation that actually degrades performance or worse can damage the amp. I have to imagine that's where the whole idea of "less NFB = better" came from. But interestingly enough, too little can cause its own issues. A too-small amount of NFB can cancel the (mostly masked) 2nd and 3rd order harmonic distortion but leave the (not mostly masked) upper overtones, which get real ugly (and real audible) real fast.