A sound engineer is designing a feedback system for a microphone amplifier to minimize noise and enhance audio clarity. They decide to implement negative feedback in their op-amp circuit. Which of the following outcomes is the most likely result of using negative feedback in this scenario?

Negative feedback in the microphone amplifier will lower the overall gain but will make the amplifier more linear, which means it will reproduce the sound more faithfully and with less distortion. The feedback also pushes the amplifier’s bandwidth higher, so it can follow rapid changes in the audio signal more accurately. Because the feedback forces the output to match the input more closely, random noise and offset errors are reduced, giving a cleaner, clearer signal. For example, if the amplifier originally had a gain of 100 V/V, adding negative feedback might drop it to 50 V/V but the output will be much cleaner and more accurate.