i use this in kitchen


you can use the built in dac to plug other bits of kit in

Very similar to the one we have in our kitchen.  See here.

Tony I could have had the long cable. Decided it had to be wireless.
That long USB may be hurting the sound quality

If you take the install step by step very carefully and refer back here if you have problems you will be fine.

I had a couple of oddities that were easily sorted by Martin.
Others here are better at these things than you or I

A well setup Pi will give you freedom to control from anywhere and better sound quality.

I'm not sure about whether Volumio or one of the other builds can read iTunes lossless files. Can anyone answer?

Ahem!
Do you want to hazard a guess?

A Pi with piCorePlayer running LMS/Squeezelite plays ALAC.
It's the LMS element that handles it, and LMS 7.9.1 deals with it natively.

I remember PaulD commenting on the difference moving over to using dBPoweramp to rip CDs, as opposed to using iTunes, and Paul saying how much better sounding the dBPoweramp rips were.
I make a mental note of such things, and eventually get around to testing them out myself.
This afternoon I ripped a CD to ALAC (Apple Lossless) using iTunes, and dragged the files onto my NAS and began comparing the dBPoweramp rip to the iTunes rip, and yes there is a difference, and the better sounding rip is the dBPoweramp one.

It was hardly an exhaustive test, but it's enough time spent to concur with Paul's findings.
The iTunes rip has slightly vague quality to it.
Leading edges are slightly blurred, and lower registers less well articulated. It doesn't sound bad, but I do prefer the dBPoweramp rip.

The ALAC files are going to be gone from the server within the next couple of minutes, and iTunes will be removed forever from my laptop within the ten minutes following that.

Best thing for it.

works well with pc bypassed the sound card,it gives you a lot more of everything,boosts the volume on devices,plays 24 bit stuff of nas box