Using cables, or any component as tone control is futile endeavor, the 'connoissseurs of coloration' notwithstanding.
If you love music, and want to hear, as accurately as possilbe, what the artists created on their insruments in a given environment through an electronic playback system in the privacy and comfort of your own home, find transparewnt speakers, apporpriate to the space they will operate in, power them with as low distortion amp as you can find (appropraiately sized to the speakers), and work on the setup and room acoustics.
You will then hear an annoying variety of sonic characteristics among the various source material in your collection. Even from track to track. The degree of distortion of many will now be intolerable.
I believe the only rational approach from here is to be selective of the recored source material you play. After all, now you can hear the difference.
Rather than use your system in a futile attempt to mix out qualities you do not like recordings, what, generally? For instance, you get it right for one recording, how are you going to adjust for the next? Absurd. And all the while you are tuning your system to mask the sonic superiority of those few recordings that are so life-like that you do not wonder why you are an audiophile.