Guts still look decent but sorry I would never buy a friggin amp that has fake carbon fiber on it... The looks have gone to hell in my opinion and everything us stood for is gone. Sorry but I have used and delt with us amps since the mid to late 90's. That is why everyone loved us amps, simplicity, bullet proof design and no frills or bs looks. Just military spec guts and smooth machined billet exterior looks. Hopefully they still have the bullet proof design but have gone gay ghetto bling bling to me.
The low end merlin series still looks good but they could do without that audiobahn style raised ghetto logo. Would be way better if they went back to the laser etched logo.
Sorry to be a hard @ss but I was really hopeing to see us amps stay in the "elite" category of desired amplifiers. Now they look like any other peice of crap off the shelf of your local low end car audio dealer.