you connect your speakers to the AMP just as you usually would but you need to run a HDMI cable from your AMP to your BLU RAY player no other cables have the bandwidth to run lossless audio formats so in short you need a amp that has HDMI and another feature you may need depending on what blu ray player you choose is a AMP that decodes the lossless audio Dolby Digital HD,DTS Master audio and PCM lossless tracks these audio formats are 7.1 aswell I think but you dont need 7.1 to run them