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
