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Thoughts on the old Schade PP series feedback?

if in 80 years nobody of the greatest manifacturer used Schade one reason exist.

I read the Deketh book pages 396 to 399 and only found issue with the load imposed on the driver stage for current Fdbk. What paragraph are you referring to?
UnSet fixes the loading with the Mosfet follower.

The problem I see with the usual resistive Schade scheme is that the N Fdbk current is being corrupted by the output tube grid drive voltage swing. The voltage across the feedback resistor is being varied by BOTH the plate voltage swing AND the grid drive voltage (with an INVERSION between them that causes 2nd harmonic distortion for each tube, 3rd H overall ). So the N Fdbk current is no longer purely proportional to the plate V. UnSet fixes that by isolating the tube drive from the N Fdbk. High gm output tubes could minimize the grid V effect, but they only came along late in the game.

Taking the "localized" N Fdbk back to the driver stage cathode or grids (crossed) fixes the corruption problem (more gain in loop minimizes drive V effect on Fdbk ), and that is what is seen in the classic commercial Amps using a localized loop (along with a global loop besides ).
 
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Just curious if anyone has built/analyzed anything like the original push-pull series feedback IT circuit.
Used by Philco in their 38-116 receiver, 1938.
Circuit lifted from Beitmans 1926-1938 Most Often Needed Radio Diagrams.
The only circuit of this kind in a reference of 235.
 

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