Focal Utopia Scala V2 or Persona (9H/7F)

If you want to start discussing value then that’s a tangential discussion where there is going to be a lot of divergence.   I’m also not sure such discussion is of any value unless someone has articulated a hard budget and that becomes a primary factor in the selection (and then there’s used versus new).  In any case, you could raise the same complaint against any of the top names - Focal, Wilson, Magico and so on.

But value aside is the 9h a better speaker than the Scala v2?

Yes.  It’s a much more capable speaker.