Thanks everybody. I'm going to let them break in and give them a chance. I will make the suggestion of jumper wire and the bi-wire option.
That being said, what about the polarity discovery that I mentioned above in the thread. One speaker had a positive polarity and the other speaker had a negaive polarity. Speaker cable connection are running positive to positive and negative to negative. Is the polarity discrepancy normal. Do I leave it as is?

