why when i turn my receiver up pass a certain point it shuts off on me?

CLICK !

It turns it off

And what's more - after 10 clicks it will make your receiver blow up.

So keep it down - or else Well unforunately this is a very general symptom. Most receivers have an autoprotect that turns the receiver off for one of two reason. Over heating or electrical shorting. The first question is which one are you experiencing? If your receiver is stone cold and you turn it on and then turn it all the way up to volume level X and then it immediately turns off then we can rule out overheating. So lets move on to shorting. Basically this is when there is when you pull too much power from the receiver and it shuts itself off to prevent damage. The most common cause of this is a tiny piece of speaker wire that is touch bare metal of the opposite speaker terminal, to fix this you re-trim all of your speaker wires at both ends. Another possible cause is if you have your speakers out of phase, ie you have switched the negative and positive terminals on your receiver or speaker, to fix this check all of your wires to make sure that black goes to black and red goes to red. Now on to the less common and more complex external causes. Perhaps you have connected more than one speaker to a single terminal you naughty, naught boy; stop that. OK, I'm going to assume you didn't do that. So it wasn't any of that stuff huh? Well let's check each individual speaker then. Unplug all of your speakers from the back of the receiver and try turning up the receiver, does it turn off? it's inside the receiver somewhere. It doesn't? plug in your front left speaker, turn it up, wait for a short yes/no? the repeat with each speaker until it does turn off. Once you come to the speaker that is the culperit it is either an internal problem with the speaker or it is one of the previously mentioned wiring problems Could be a lot of things but sound like it could be that you are playing your speakers too loud and it is trying to protect your speakers and receiver from blowing up. Most receivers have some sort of built in protection for your speakers.