Safe PDF version when merge files

I've worked in separate .indd files and export each file to PDF (version 1.3). When I merge PDFs in Acrobat, merget files is with changed version (probably default).
I tried to find where are settings in merging, but failed. Can you help me?

Hi Sukrit,
It's strange to have no possibilities to change default version!
It's strange when merging PDFs to change their initial PDF version!
So in this way need to produce individial PDFs (in PDF 1.3), merge it (Acrobat change to PDF 1.6), save it to .ps and distill it (to original PDF 1.3). Very, very inefficient!!!
Regards
Todor Todorov

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