My experience has been is that there is rarely a "one size fits all" when it comes to audio gear. It takes some mixing and matching to get the sound that you prefer...and it is quite likely that others might think it could be improved to make it to their liking.
Benchmark gets a lot of love...but some think its too lean. Pass gets a lot of love, but many don't want the heat.
I have a buddy with a Magnepan 3.7i set up. I've heard it recently with three different amps...they all sound a little different, but they all sound really good in his room....Halo A21, Sanders Magtech and Lyngdorf 2170.
The Lyngdorf is probably the surprise of this group??? It is even better with room perfect engaged...and when used as a preamp for the other amps and when room perfect is on, it seems to improve them as well.