I beg to differ slightly. My Wilson experience tallies with Jtinn's on all accounts. But I have heard the Utopia come alive with YBA Passion electronics. The latter are surely not a unique choice... but the speakers lost the lifeless precision (as Jtinn notes) and started dancing.
Only, I wasn't emotionally transported by the music either of these speakers produced -- objectively excellent as they may be, and there's no doubt in my mind that they are top-class...
Note: the room was large in both cases, there were dedicated lines, transparent & valhalla cables, I usually judge by classical, the Wilson electronics were the big Krells (pre + 500-600? never remember).
Only, I wasn't emotionally transported by the music either of these speakers produced -- objectively excellent as they may be, and there's no doubt in my mind that they are top-class...
Note: the room was large in both cases, there were dedicated lines, transparent & valhalla cables, I usually judge by classical, the Wilson electronics were the big Krells (pre + 500-600? never remember).