People are saying parametric EQs and i wouldn't mind that but my wants and wishes include some other stuff.

There are a bunch of amp/dac manufacturers today making exactly the same products over and over again at different prices, shapes and sizes. These products are getting a little redundant imo since they all perform the same.

1- Real sound signature presets:

iFi does that in 100 dollar dacs, why can't Topping's 600 dollar dacs have these functions? Would be incredible if these devices had presets like some powered monitors do "Vocal, Dynamic, Monitor..." modes. I have powered monitors from Edifier and i am constantly playing with these modes, Vocal mode really puts voices forwards in the soundstage making it sound warmer and its great not only for music but for movie dialogues as well.

Those filters "apodizing, fast cut out, slow etc" are utterly useless.

Functions such as crosstalk levels, reverb, bass shelf, or even some coloring configurations that mimic tubes or increase artificially soundstage would be great.

2- physical knobs to interact with the signature:

Remember your dad's Pioneer integrated amp with those cool Bass and Treble knobs? That would be cool in these high end dacs on top of on-board presets too. Alot to mess around with on discrete functions.

This is the only way I see this drove of high end devices to be any appealing to me since there's no difference in sound quality from a 100 dollar dac to 1000 dollar dac anymore. All of these ess/akm/burr brown based devices sound the same.

I don't get why I should spend that much on any of these new dacs nowadays honestly.