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First, Thanks everyone for taking the time to
make suggestions. I was kinda busy setting up the system and testing it. In any case, many of you suggested that I check the wires. And... (drum roll).... you were correct. One of the speaker wires was a little loose and once I fixed it everything is working flawlessly. I am running the AVR on 4 ohms. It is getting no warmer than it did before.

The speakers sound awesome - although I feel I need to tweak the settings on my DA5ES to get the sound I will like.


Thank you all again.

Cheers

That's great news. Enjoy !!

If you have other speakers in your setup that are 6 or 8 ohms, I would not recommend you running in 4ohm mode.

Glad everything worked out. I would keep the reciever at 8ohms, from everythingf I have read you don't want switch your reciever to 4ohms.

Slider, glad to hear that you solved the problem. As was said, when a shutdown happens, especially if 4 ohm speakers are involved, although the tendency is to blame the receiver and/or the speakers, a little piece of wire is often the actual culprit.

As was also said, you should at least try using the 8 ohm setting, despite what the manual suggests. At the 4 ohm setting the maximum voltage available at the rails in the power supply section is reduced and because of Ohm's Law the maximum current and power available are likewise reduced. The 4 ohm setting should only be used as a last resort if the receiver would shut down at the 8 ohm setting.