Bordering on criminal, I know…

It would be very surprising if bridging that amp would work ok with those speakers, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the result would be that the amp goes into a self-protective shutdown mode, or perhaps even damage.

A bridged amplifier sees a load impedance equal to one-half of the speaker’s impedance, at any given frequency. The 11A has a nominal impedance of 4 ohms, descending to 0.6 ohms at 20 kHz, so in bridged mode the amp would see that as nominally 2 ohms, descending to 0.3 ohms at 20 kHz.

Few amps would do well working into such an impedance, and that is particularly likely to be true in the case of a home theater receiver.

Regards,
-- Al

I don’t think you’re really ‘bridging’ the amp channels as understood in a typical 2 channel amp where the option is provided by a switch. This is just reassigning unused amp channels in a 9 channel amplifier. However, and it’s a big however, the ML’s have a powered bass section, and the speaker has pretty high sensitivity, so the extra power is probably superfluous. 

I see the ML’s only have one set of binding posts. I know multi-channel receivers sometimes provide a menu option to assign spare channels so they may be used in a bi or tri-wire setup. I guess I don’t see how you would do this, unless of course bridging is specifically addressed in the manual. If so, the other posters are spot on.
Or, as Emily Litella would say- “never mind.”

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