Alright, cool. I hope I am amazed, I'm pretty excited to have some decent speakers. I have a pair of Grado SR80's and I've had a couple pairs of nicer headphones so it's not as if I've never experienced decent sounding music before, but hearing music from a speaker is just different.
This will all be going in a dorm room in a few months, so I kind of figured that a sub would be overkill, but I've heard that having a sub makes the other speakers sound better since the crossover will keep them from having to play lows and mids simultaneously, cleaning up vocals and stuff, so I thought it might be worth it to get just like a nice 8 or 10" even if I didn't have it turned up loud or whatever.
The DAC idea seems great to me, but if I do decide I want to prepare for the future in case I do want to get a turntable or add any more consoles or whatever, what are some decent receivers that would good for my situation? The last time I was looking at receivers the Onkyo 605/606 was pretty awesome for price/ performance, is that still the case with whatever their new line is?