Thanks for the reply.  Yeah, I understand that cheaper speakers of that form factor will inherently produce decently lower quality sound, but that's about how much money I would want to spend on this whole thing.  I mostly want to make sure that running the Raspberry Pi through that soundcard...

I'm trying to get something set up where I can stream spotify wirelessly, and what I have together so far is below:   Raspberry Pi - $45 http://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-Model-Revision-512MB/dp/B009SQQF9C/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1369772156&sr=1-1&keywords=raspberry+pi  ...