System shutting down due to clipping?

The receiver is shutting down due to heat.
IF you do not want to change anything..Get a small muffin fan ... two would be better, and blow air up from under the receiver. It will help cool it down enough. And since you are playing pretty loud, you will not hear the fan anyway.
You can get A/C ones, or if you got a small power supply with a 12 volt out you could use some computer ones with speed controls.. (for use when playing at lower volumes (if ever) Or a A/C motor fan spped control at moat hardware stores. (I added one for my kitchen fan.. worked great.)

As usual.....good ideas. i will get to work. thanks

turn it down, change to a better amp or get different speakers, I can all but promise your problem is beyond a fan or two.

I checked the manual and this newer model AVR does not have a 6 ohm option. The surrounds are set to small and I did dial back on the master max volume setting.
I am not going to replace the AVR since it is fairly new. I will consider changing out the speakers if I cannot get this fixed. I do not want to "turn it down" since the system needs to play at the volume level I want. It is suppose to please me and I am not going to play at a low volume in fear of the system shutting down. If the problem is overheating as Elizabeth suggests then a fan should certainly help. I just have to figure out how to wire one into the system. More testing tonight. And no I wasn't playing it on 11.

Put some more 4 Ohm speakers on that Yamaha, crank it up and show it who's boss.