Steven: First paragraph - one of your trademark not-responsive-to-the-post responses. I have lots of Mogami in the studio rig, and used to own some Nordost ICs 20 years ago or so, and abandoned them at the time due to sounding clinical/lacking body. Haven’t heard any lately. This paragraph has nothing to do with anything either. 
Second paragraph - The Benchmark DACs I’ve heard were to me very clinical, “hifi” sounding compared with PS DACs. Again, this is maybe 5 years since I’ve heard one. Good bang for the buck. But expensive? They cost about the same as a decent pair of cables. 