DNicely is exactly correct - the six analog cables run from the player to the six-channel analog input, which is activated with the "6CH" button on the remote. The "bypass" button will use the stereo analog input for the active input (presumably the DVD input).

On a Sony SACD player, you'll probably also have to go into the players set-up menu and confirm a few settings such as speaker size, crossover frequency, and LFE setting. If I'm remembering correctly, there's also test tones in there if you want to make sure the player is sending signal. I wouldn't calibrate to them but it tells you the player is sending something out of the analog outputs. Good luck!!

After switching to your SACD player, make sure you hit the AUD button before hitting the 6CH button. IIRC, Gonk had a nice macro programmed into his 950 remote which preserved the transport commands for his player.

It seems like such a long time ago that we all got our 950s with their various colored dots and I'm still enjoying mine.

Ahhhh, dots....

I did have a couple handy macros for turning on the 6CH input and engaging the stereo analog bypass. Because the 950's stock remote (an SL-9000) used the device buttons as input buttons, toggling to AUD (the 950 controls) and selecting "6CH" forced you to toggle back to DVD to regain control of your player, and as soon as you hit DVD the 950 switches back to the DVD input (including the digital audio input). My workaround was to create a macro (I think I parked it on M4, but I moved from the SL-9000 to an MX-500 back in 2003 so my memory is getting a bit fuzzy - I think it's still in my review somewhere ) that would simply send the 6CH command, allowing me to avoid having to go to AUD and back to DVD.

EDIT: Here are my review notes about a macro to select the 6CH input.

Thanks again. It works great. I haven't tried to use the macros yet but it sounds like a good idea.
Its really nice to get such good information. I was getting very frustrated trying to figure it out.

SACD and DVD-Audio can get pretty frustrating because of the output restrictions - glad to hear that we got you on track.

A good multi channel recording rocks! happy listening.