TomCO I understood what you were asking and I looked in the manual for something similar to what your other processor has. I have that capability with my Onkyo 886 procesor. There are a lot of devices out there with this capability but I could not find anything in the manual which would allow you to turn on something like a "Pure Direct" Mode. As far as the manual goes, it does say that all digital inputs go through the DSP, so the only unadulterated signal is analog. I think Outlaw wanted to allow the Equalizer to be allowed to affect all of the digital signals and the cost to incorporate a bypass may have been a challenge.