recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible


Hello,
I need help. My problem is my system sounds harsh on the highs to me. Not extremely bad, but enough that I need to fix it. My system consists of Ryan 610's, oppo Sonica Dac, and a Belles 150a hotrod amp. Speaker wires being used are old monster cable from the 90's. I also have monster cable rca. I mostly stream through Tidal. My question is can I make the desired effect by switching cables or should I add  a tube amp or pre amp. My budget on the wire would be around 300.00
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
gunmetalzin

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@erik_squires  +1
Room first, then electronics, then cables.

@gunmetalzin - what version of Monster? They made many @ multiple price points.

Where are the speakers placed in what shaped and how furnished room? At what height relative to ears. Try sitting lower or higher. Forward / back

Try angling the speakers and / or tilting them back. Try reversing L & R to have tweets inboard or outboard.

You may want to try replacing the HF bi-wire link with a 5Ω 5W resistor and see if it helps.

Ignore most everything else here.
For the googlth time, systems in a room as individual as a fingerprint.

Blanket recommendations are not worth the bits to transmit them.

See http://ielogical.com/Audio/CableSnakeOil.php for examples of how the same cable reacts with just amplifier and loudspeaker XO order.

When one adds in low level interconnect, all electronic and room colorations buying a component on recommendation is odds worse than craps.
Western Electric would never have made that cable if they'd had today's technology.
So basically, if you’re to believe these people, they are claiming that their cables are lowering the 2-5khz range by a few dB.
People mistake frequency response for time and phase errors. When rooms interact with time and phase errors it is entirely possible to have large perceived differences in the 2-5kHz range.

Western Electric made cable for balanced circuits with extremely limited bandwidth. It was often difficult to understand a well know acquaintance until one had ’learned’ their voice over the telephone.

Cables are no more a Band-Aid than an amplifier. It is possible to take the best of everything and make two systems, one of which will rip your face off and the other will put you to sleep. Put the systems in different rooms and both could be great.

For the googlth time, specific product recommendations in fora like these are not worth the bits to transmit them.