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blu-ray/cd/sacd player with EQ or tone controls? Any recommendations please?

Audiogon friends -
I have a relatively large collection of CDs, SACDs, Blu-ray Audio and a few HDCDs. When my lovely Oppo died out of warranty, i bought a Yamaha BD-A1060 blu-ray player. The Yam plays all my CDs, HDCDs, SACDs and blu-ray and is surprisingly very close to the Oppo i had in sound quality.

However, my preamp/amp stack is a purist piece with no tone controls. The Yamaha does not have any either. Are there any bluray/cd players out there that have any EQ/tone controls/etc in the digital domain? It would really help since i am limited to crappy recordings from many of my favorite artists.

Thank you,
- William

deep_333
erik_squires
16,058 posts
 
So, you just need analog tone controls?  Schiit Loki.
deep_333 OP
1,375 posts
 
@erik_squires , the yam has output stages balanced after the DAC. I run it with xlr to a true balanced preamp & power amp. I'd rather not deal with the Shiit Loki in the middle.  Is there a blu-ray/sacd player that may have eq, tone controls etc in the digital domain (you may know of)?
erik_squires
16,058 posts
 
I don't know of any pure disk player, but if you rip and use Roon, you can do it there.  miniDSP has a couple of digital domain EQ and there's at least one network player with this built in. 
motokokusanagi
189 posts
 
The universal player Pioneer UDP-LX500 offers a sharp/soft/slow digital filter setting; that might give you the EQ options you need. It also has an "Audio Direct" setting to bypass all filtering.

The Audiolab 8300CDQ (CD disc player and DAC-pre) offers 7 digital filters for PCM and 4 for DSD.

The Panasonic DP-UB9000 CD-Blu-Ray (no SACD) player offers a bunch of audio things like night time mode, "remaster" (treble) settings, "digital tube" setting (warmer), and a dialog enhancer.

For pure compatibility of disc formats, I’d say the Pioneer is the nearest to a current production Oppo.
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