question about speaker wire/hdmi vs non hdmi audio

[Erman_94]

Originally Posted by slap_yo_mama

What is driving the speakers?? Do you have a receiver, or is the player driving them somehow?

I ask because 3 ohm speakers require a lot of juice (more than conventional 8 ohm speakers), so it may be a limitation of your output device - not being able to properly power all 5.1 channels, but being able to properly drive the 2.

the dvd player has audio inputs in it, no receiver