Hello everyone, I thought I would finally stop lurking as I hope to buy some gear in the near future and you all seem really helpful and friendly.
 
I am soon to have a new laptop and am looking to get an entry level audio set up to go alongside it. Based on all my reading so far I think the best starting point is a DAC/amp + headphones combo (one reason I am in this particular site).
 
I am not a bass-head, here some albums that are representative of what I listen to :
 
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Smetana - Ma Vlast
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Andy Mckee
City and Colour - Little Hell
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
 
In terms of the DAC, portability is not an essential but I might be willing to pay for it. I would like to be able to run a set of 2.0 speakers through it in the future. (I am undecided whether to save for budget monitors or just get reasonable small speakers for when I want to be less attached to by wires to my pc)
 
In terms of Budget initially I am looking at a total of £200ish.  It really all depends on the price of the laptop I get.a
 
Thoughts I have had are :
 
Fiio E17 and AT M50  (I suspect that cheaper dac and spending more on the headphones might yield more)
 
I am debating whether I want over ear, on-ear, or IEMs. IEMS would allow me to have one pair for home and away but suffer in certain aspects of sound, I am curious as to the sound quality differences between these 3 types.
 
 
Any way that's enough rambling.