Thank you everyone for the responses. As of right now, I am going to wait for the Emotiva XPA-3 to arrive and test out prob by Friday of this week. If that doesnt work I am going to borrow a friends different pre-amp/processor and use a standard DVD player to test. I will keep everyone posted.

I dont think its the speakers because they both distort, either right or left. Personally, I would think that would be highly unlikely to have both speakers distort.

Dom