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    remind me to avoid any company that charges 400 quid for a remote, thats obscene
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    What £400 for a remote! I know there is equipment that the oil sheiks buy but £400 for that remote is a rip off. I was expecting to see a machined billet with gold etching.

    Its a market where many manufacturers know they have you by the short and curlies but that is ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    'Usually dispatched within 72 hours' - that's because they go on a 2 day bender with your £400 first.
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    I had a BDA-2, I just used a Logitech Harmony 250 which was £28. You can control all of the functions and the on/off. You can assign the buttons where you want as well. It took about 10 minutes from getting the remote out of the packaging to having it working.

    You can do the same for BDA-1, BDA-2 and BDA-3, they are all listed when you do the setup.

    As others mention, you can have the remote control other gear too if you want to as that's what they are really designed for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Minstrel SE View Post
    What £400 for a remote! I know there is equipment that the oil sheiks buy but £400 for that remote is a rip off. I was expecting to see a machined billet with gold etching.

    Its a market where many manufacturers know they have you by the short and curlies but that is ridiculous.
    i don't think they have anyone by the short and curlies, it's your money and you make your own choice on who you give it to. Had the op bought new, I would have expected him to know if it had remote control and whether it came with one. Personally I wouldn't pay 2.4k for a Dac but if I lost the plot and was considering it I would change my mind when I found out the remote wasn't included.
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    I had to read this twice. It's not even gold plated! Ditto what Rob says, try and get the codes.

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    I bet there are folk on here who have paid more for a piece of wire.

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    I bet there are folk on here who have paid more for a piece of wire.

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    No doubt, and why not

    £400 remotes a joke (to me), but hey..its a buyers market, will be worth it to someone.
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    What you need to do is work out how many times you walk too the amp to adjust volume/inputs etc. Calculate the average wear per trip to the HiFi, or if unknown work out how many pairs slippers per year, I'm thinking they're probably replaced about the end of December each year.

    Multiply that by 20 ( years of warranty on remote ). This should give you total cost per year of walking to the HiFi. If it's less than £400 just walk to the HiFi each time, if it's more then......

    That should tell you if the £400 is worth it or not. However there is a big issue in this calculation, what if you don't live 20 years

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