Trudat, although in Canada we had a similar, although less costly, GST plus provincial taxes. Thanks to all for your input. Found our Amazon (Canada) currently has the 650 on sale so have ordered one.
I know this is a prissy first world problem but these remotes are just vulgar over menu’d silliness…a simple aluminium app remote for volume only would be, IMO, an ideal solution for this issue as you will always need to “boot up” bigger fire power (iPad) ) if choosing song selection or playlist from ROON or similar.
My chiding post was just a recommendation to dCS that the inclusion of a simple and inexpensive volume control remote would be a perfectly simple, inexpensive and thoughtful addition to these products.