One cannot live by complete cycles of Beethoven

There have been some very positive reviews of the Anthony Gallo Reference 3.1's. These $3,000 speakers are compared to much higher priced "reference" speakers. This is very attractive to me. Can anyone validate this?

I have a DAC (Stello) that sounds too rich/loud, to the point of distraction, i have very little flexibility with the volume control of my preamp. If I turned it down, the music sounds uninvolving and dull. What's the best way to tackle this problem? The ARC LS26 preamp has 3 different attenuation settings BUT I do loose sound quality if I attenuate the signal, my amp has a built-in attenuator (6dB). Should I try to match the attenuation levels between preamp and amp? I'm lost, also why do manufacturers do this, what's there to gain by having such a hot output?

I will try to list as much as information as possible so you can recommend your favorite speaker to me!

I am on my second cartridge from this company and have been very happy so far. I got an Airy 3Xsb first. All the alphabet soup there stands for copper coils, with a silver base. The Airy 3 replaced a Benz Glider, and did it very well. No knock on the Benz, but I was never very excited about it, but for the money it is not a bad cartridge. The ZYX was IMO much better.

Anyone have any opinions on these? Can I assume since it has been remastered that it it better? Just wondering what everyone thought.