Cables to settle brightness

I would try Some of the Tellurium Q range; they are actually grouped according to two axes: tone and resolution, so they are easy to chose as per the OP needs

I had the Black II in my system and although they didn’t do it for me, it is a very good cable for the price.

Cardas

@duckworp I doubt it's the Denafrips.  It's the fifth DAC I tried and best sounding of all except maybe my old DAC, which wasn't as good sounding in other ways, much more homogeneous sounding, making everything sound warm and smooth with reasonable detail.  I am pretty sure it's the fact that I went from WiFi using coax cable to Ethernet using both USB and I2S over HDMI.  Lots of variables, no time to try and identify exactly what the problem is, and I have blown my hifi budget for at least this year.  Whaddya gonna do?

Wires are tone control, there is not way around it, its just the physics of cables. To tame the brightness try to find some cables that have conductors of larger diameter than the cables your are using.