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cm10 S2 and Rotel RX-1050 when bi-wired on A and B speakers Rotel overheats easily

got B&W cm10 to replace 686 and started by bi-wiring them using A and B speakers. But the receiver overheats and turns itself off. It is 100W per channel which I thought would be enough. I went to regular wiring, receiver gets warm but does not overheat.
Thoughts? 
thanks in advance.
petarr
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sunshdw
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Probably because speaker b is a parallel amp channel to speaker a. In order to actually BiAmp you would need to add an external 2ch amp.

Also a lack of ventilation and air flow will create a large amount of heat
petarr OP
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Thanks for your response.
there is no lack of ventilation or air flow. I do have another receiver I could hook up but I am not sure how to do it.
Here is the pic of the back of my receiver, the one that overheats.
https://www.kenrockwell.com/audio/rotel/rx-1050/D3S_1753-rear-2400.jpg
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yogiboy
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This is how you bi-wire speakers. Are you sure you wired everthing correctly?  
http://brilliancehifi.co.uk/how-to-bi-wire-speakers.htm
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