Aperture seems to apply a color profile to raw by itself

When I open up a image in aperture, it shows the image as shot for a second and then disorts the colors for some reason, applying some kind of preset profile to every raw I open. Below, it shows "processing" for the second before changing the colors. In lightroom the camera calibration profile can be changed to neutral since adobe's own calibration translation profile burns colors easily- which seems to be the case here as well? Apples support site says that no profile is used or applied when processing raw, but its definitely doing something, pretty much burning the colors flat. Translator problem? Where to change it to neutral?
I may be a retard, but gimme a hand here.
edit: iMac '11, MBA '13 (same problem with both) + aperture (latest). Camera is 1Dx, if that makes any difference.
Message was edited by: finomad

Cheers J Lietz- that was the key. Any kind of "in camera" dynamic range extender + boost changes the color balance and mushes the image. I tried retouching photos with pictures that had no D+ or any other in camera- dynamics assist on and it there seems to be very little color shift.
The thing is, that especially in images that have a lot of dynamic range to cover (strong backlight i.e.) , aperture chooses by default to apply full boost + hue boost even if I thought I had set a default preset to do otherwise (and therefore didn't doublecheck them) and that combined to somewhat compressed data from higher and lower end of the histogram seems to shift the color balance toward purple / red and mush the image to the point of being unusable. It makes it even worse if the picture has been initially even a little underexposed. The effect was not easily visible in pictures taken in daylight or even in night-time pictures (although could be seen with some pixel peeping) with landscape or mildly coloured objects being the subject, but in nightclub scenery the boost has a pretty much a horrific effect.
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