So the presumption is, if you've got the disposable income necessary to purchase said DAC, you've got more money than sense to spend on an overpriced remote control?
Being able to afford something easily, or otherwise, doesn't automatically rob one of one's common sense and desire to obtain value for money. This remote control nonsense is indicative of how anything used in a high-end hi-fi context attracts a ridiculous premium.
'Professional record cleaners', anyone? A vacuum pump, with a rotating platter in a cheap chipboard box, yours for £500.... And can someone remind me how much Linn charge for a replacement plastic lid for an LP12?
£100 for a stylus pressure gauge, identical to the mass-produced Chinese variety, sold on ebay for a mere fraction of the price, simply because it comes with an 'audiophile badge'?
And there are 100s, if not 1000s of examples of such ridiculously inflated prices, for fairly basic items, simply because they're being applied for hi-fi purposes. Only idiots with more money than sense don't consider that before opening their wallets.
Marco.