JMLab Utopia and Watt/Puppy 7.0 Comparsion

I am not a big Utopia fan. I find them a bit on the lifeless sounding side. I have heard them with everything from low powered tubes to huge powerful solid state amplifiers.

The Watt Puppy 7's on the other hand are a much different beast. They are wonderfully dynamic and fairly low in distorion. Although they really sing with quite a bit of power, they do play quite well with the lower powered stuff. The drawback with the Wilson speakers has been cohesiveness and musicality. If you are looking for a very impressive sound to show off to your friends, this is a wonderful speaker for those purposes. Long term listening always leaves me with the feeling that the lower midrange is too bloaty and I always feel like I want to mess with the setup.

If your choice is only between those two speakers, I would highly suggest the Watt / Puppies (by a wide margin).

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).

me too,i would highly suggest the watt/puppies(by a wide margin)