Steve, with my MPS-1 I tried various modes, direct, stereo (80hz crossover), and movies (all speakers small/80hz crossover), and still had shut downs. The shutdowns occurred normally during explosions in movies, or when the music was turned up a bit, but not to insane levels.

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