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RE: apparently amplifier tests conducted by the military

The ringing is caused by the large amount of global negative feedback, together with inadequate attention to the phase response and stability margin. To be fair, this was the early days when feedback was still new to most people. The extreme form of this instability is called "motorboating". :^)

The real problem is that the output transformer is inside the loop, and its inductance is a strong function of signal frequency and level. I have always guessed that this is the reason the Dynaco Stereo 70 has some feedback from the output tube plates, reducing from the transformer secondary while maintaining large amounts of total feedback.


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