Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition

An end-to-end Benchmark could easily be the most accurate reproduction you can get, but if you have a warm fuzzy love of a bunch of pop/rock albums from your life, you may not like what it reveals.  It's kinda the opposite of the Enya effect.  That is, if you play an Enya track on a hyper-revealing system it strips away the fog that contributes to her product.  I'm a great fan of Benchmark technology, but it can be pearls before swine of existing recordings.  It's the audiophile dilemma of whether a system gets so good that you need to feed it audiophile recordings.