It's annoying, but we just pre-wired a house and they will have the new Amp. We ran the speakers for each zone to the TV location and looped them, then ran them back to the rack. This allows me to have the amp local to the TV if they want to have the ability to play the TV through the speakers. I'm really glad they made the new amp rack mountable (Sort of), but it has ARC so it really needs to be close to the TV.