Well, rise of digital era must have chopped off its already messed up copper lines. Good or bad is up to the user but the new design is fully compatible with modern male outputs.As a sidenote, not sure if anyone has mentioned it before. But I'll compare backside of an older Denon AVR-2105
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With a current model AVR-X2800H (a more expensive model)
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