@audphile1 …good point to the OP.
System synergy …or lack of it …. matters big-time.
If you are going to buy one blind without a personal audition bake-off first, then it’s a much more risky bet. If so, then I’d stick with a like brand power amp married up to the pre-amp .. ( PASS to PASS, KRELL to KRELL …. etc., etc. …)