[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Rathji

You would either use the headphone jack on the front to plug in your 3.5mm stereo plug for your speakers, or get a female 3.5mm stereo to a male R/W RCA cable, and plug it into the r/w on the receiver.

You won't get 5.1 that way though. Also, you wouldn't be using the amp portion of the AVR.

Originally Posted by Azure

Question, I'm not seeing the inputs to actually plug my speakers in. It would be the same inputs that go into any normal computer with on board sound, or a sound card. Not sure what the term for it is. Otherwise that seems to be more or less what I want.

A receiver is going to output to speakers via speaker wire. If you've got an 1/8" (headphone) jack for you're speakers, they're already being powered. In your case with the 6100, they are definitely powered. You could cut off the jacks and then wire them to the amp, but the 6100 is a 76W system. You hook that up to an amp that's putting out 50-100 per channel, and those speakers aren't going to last long. I'd recommend purchasing both the AVR and the speakers. If you're on a budget, you could take a look at an HTIB (home theatre in a box) which includes both an AVR and speakers.

You mentioned having 3-4 HDMI inputs on the receiver. If you want to save some cash you could get an entry level receiver (or used from a few years ago) with only 2, and get an HDMI switch from monoprice for $50.