Brighter sound then Bryston DAC

I agree with clearthink! Source SQ can vary from abysmal to sublime! All competenly DACs will sound the same, regardless of price.

The idea that DAC A sounds "brighter" or"duller" than DAC B is a perception based upon using sources of questionable accuracy and provenance.

If you want to hear a DAC with "coloration" get one with a tube output. Then you can tube roll for your preference in SQ!

I love my DAC3.  It sounds plenty “alive “ to me but source matters.  I also had a Mytek Manhattan I which sounded more in your face and ultimately I found fatiguing.  However, both Bryston, which relies on now vanished AKM chips, and Mytek, which just had a major schism with their manufacturing wing, might produce vastly different sounding products at this point anyway 

I don't know, why not just try tone controls?