# Stability of delta sigma modulator with high frequency signal input

What happens to the high frequency part of a signal (in the region where the quantization noise is high) requantized with a delta sigma modulator, let's say with $$STF = 1$$ and $$NTF = (1-z^{-1})^N$$? I assume it is just lost into the shaped quantization noise, but does it affect also the stability of the modulator? In particular I know that MASH structures rely on the fact that the signal is still present inside the secondary modulator superposed to the added quantization noise. Does this "high frequency signal" (the quantization noise of the previous stage of the MASH) affect the stability of the modulator? The literature always assume the first order delta sigma is unconditionally stable, but also in presence of an input high frequency signal? My doubts arise from the fact that the high frequency part of the spectrum is used to stuff shaped noise, if this portion of the spectrum is already occupied by the signal itself does that mean that there is less "space" available and this could lead to stability problems?