Is there a small contradiction in your request, surroundophile?

When you ask for a 5.1 input with full analog bass management, it makes me think you’re looking for a purely analog path. When you ask for distance settings, wouldn’t that would mean suggesting the intervention of conversion to digital to institute those settings?

If I wished to have a purely analog path after an SACD player, and that ended up bypassing any digitally derived distance settings in the pre/pro, then I would use an SACD player that allowed me to choose distance settings affecting the SACD analog output. That way when I use digital sources with my pre/pro, the pre/pro takes care of the distance issue, when I playback SACD, the player takes care of the distance issue.

These days, with some 7.1 analog source options out there, I’d aim for a minimum of two 7.1 inputs and prefer three – maybe 2 x 7.1 plus 1 x 5.1, or 1 x 7.1 plus 2 x 5.1.