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Mmmmmm. Now were talkin! 
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I noticed the rocker switch on the back and the pushbutton on the front. I assume both are "power" switches. But why two?
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It's common design practice with audio equipment to have an easily-accessible standby switch on the front and master switch on the back.
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Power can be disconnected easily by unplugging the unit. The switch on the back therefore doesn't add value IMO but it does complicate compliance and leadtime and is another point of failure.
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If the rear switch is removed, the last module can then be lined up with the other three and a backplane can connect all of them together eliminating a good number of the point-to-point wires. I suppose a backplane can still be created for the current configuration but trace routing is not as clean and straight-forward. Quite impressive nonetheless! Meeting the footprint and height requirements while keeping the manufacturing engineers happy is a challenge I'm sure  .
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All of my professional equipment, as well as many "consumer" audio products that I've owned have had a master power switch on the back as well as a standby switch on the front.
Probably related to power-triggering devices in this case.
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I think somebody's got OCD... Where's medic8r when you need him? It takes one to know one, Mojo 
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What can I say? For the benefit of man-kind, engineers are trained to be obsessive-compulsive .
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