Starting Out in PC Audio


Sorry for the basic questions: I'm an old time two channel rig guy, tubes, the works. This PC stuff is a bit confusing
so. Here is my idea, I thank you in advance for advice.

Budget of $1000.

PC will be Win 7
Files are all in FLAC

My thought is buy audioengine 5 speakers
hook them to pc with good rca's (anti-cable?)
use a usb D/A the HRT-2?
Foobar for player

Would this work and sound decent?

Any thoughts very appreciated, would like to keep it at about 1000.

Thanks
mlapenta
this setup would be for pc area only. as far as DAC still doing research on DAC's below 500. the whole 24/96 also confuses me. thanks
24bit/96Khz audio is digital audio files sampled at a higher sampling rate (frequency 96Khz vs 44.1Khz redbook) and bigger word size for data (24bit vs 16bit redbook). Typically DVD-A discs and a few web sites have 24/96 files. You can rip DVD-A discs and get the hirez music files. You get more audio information compared to redbook CD. Many/most DACs can handle 24/96 PCM. And there's even a smaller niche of 24/192 music files.