What Are You Powering Your Focal Utopias With?

@jjue Thanks. Looks like a mighty fine integrated.  Anything it does better than another? 

I heard that VAC and Allnic work very well with them. I bet, Ypsilon would be interesting to try, never heard of this pairing. For solid state amplification I would first try Gryphon, but I always say that regardless of speakers.

I had the Scala v1 for many years powered by the Ayre MX-R and more recently the upgraded Twenty.

The main point that you should be aware of is that the Scala has a bright/rougher tweeter so you need to have a setup that doesn’t accentuate the highs. The Ayre isn’t the sweetest up top and I ended up having to shelve the tweeter down - took away some air and sparkle but not much choice given the normal tweeter setting was typically too bright for my taste.

VAC... Hmmm.  Seems to be a common (still) recommendation.