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If I knew Dialog was say 6 months away I could do this, but there is no timescales . This has always been my priority as having an all Devialet solution really appeals. I also already have the Dialog, but I think I have finally lost my patience. Seven months and I have not been able to play any of my high res music and more importantly, been unable to buy any more.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but from your recent posts it seems to me that holding out until you find the "perfect" solution is getting in the way of enjoying the system (and music) you have already.

Since it seems there isn't a single streamer that "ticks all the boxes" for you, buying one now is a bit of a gamble that it will develop in the way you would like it to.  You might be lucky, if the software and services evolve in the right direction, but equally you might be left with something that permanently niggles or lacks some feature you need/want.

If you have high-resolution music files that you can't play at the moment, have you considered down-converting them to CD resolution (that is, making lower-resolution copies)?  I know that's not a perfect -- or even elegant -- solution, but at least you'd be able to listen to the music you have now or might buy in future.  And you wouldn't need to push yourself into deciding to buy something that isn't exactly what you want.