I just want to add two things:
1. If you can place a small fan that is not noisy inside or near the stand it will help you with the ventilation (that's what I'm doing to ventilate the rear of my TV and top of receiver)
2. I own the RX-V2700, searching online for reviews I found one on
www.audioholics.com (maybe there's one for your model) ... they stated that even when using 4 ohm load, to leave it at 8 ohms instead of 6 ohms; their test showed that when used at 8 ohms the output was 272WPC instead of the 144WPC at 6 ohms (
http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/r...-configuration) ... maybe is the same with your receiver
