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.

Assuming one already has decent cables, they can definitely influence sound. I had Audioquest Rocket 44s in my setup which I bought just to get the system going which were very good but certainly not a top tier cable.

I recently added in Clarus Crimson cables which are higher quality copper and multi-strand. Based on other member's experience I spoke with, I wanted to try these to take the slight edge off the brightness I was getting on certain recordings as well as step up the quality of speaker cables given the rest of the system has leveled up.

These cables did what I was hoping, the system is as detailed if not more detailed than before but most importantly took the edge off the slight brightness. It also gave more body to the mid-range. The improvement was not as significant as changing other major components but just enough to do exactly what I was looking for.