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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
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.
deep_333 OP
1,375 posts
 
@erik_squires minidsp seems like the best option thus far...especially since every bluray player i read up on all last night is not as versatile as the yamaha?! All the other stuff is aimed at the videophiles and not the audiophile. GO YAMAHA, I, HEREBY, SUBMIT TO THY GREATNESS!

p.s. it's a shame Oppo went under though. You should look at the asking prices from the vultures on the used market.
erik_squires
16,058 posts
 
Oh, I know.  I miss Oppo.  I have a 103 and shudder to think if there will even be BD players when it dies.
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