This question was recently raised about a set of consumer hi-fi amp and speakers. While most hi-fi/home audio questions are off topic because most of the field is unrelated to production and is often highly opinion based, this particular question has a clear and solid technical foundation which is largely in common with production amp concerns.
While a non-production question can sometimes be made production oriented in cases where the concepts are exactly the same, in this case, there are likely subtle differences in the way a consumer amp works vs a production amp (notably the muting described.)
This prevents the question from being re-written to avoid talking about consumer gear, however do we still want to allow questions like this that avoid most of the pitfalls of hi-fi and are solidly based in relevant theory for production uses or do we want to keep a strict line of off-topicness for non-production uses for clarity's sake?
