Amp keeps overheating

I have the kac 9102d model amp from kenwood and my problem is that the amp keeps going into protection mood when I'm pushing it I'm running 4 guage to it and i'm only running one single mtx 7500 at 4 ohms. my question to you is where do i look for the problem

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Try to turn down the volume??? LOL No really most likly the voice coil is overheating on the speaker, or the unit is over heating. Try to add a fan on top of the unit as I found this on high powered units, that they are being push hard and getting hot. Is the amp really hot when it does this? If it is then its a normal thing as not enough venilation. if its not hot then theres a problem in the amp and should be bench checked by a pro with load resistors and a tone generatoe as well as a scope to check if theres a clipping problem in the output stage.

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