This is so subjective and complex. Focal Utopias seem a little silly to me, though I am sure they are great if you want partially passive speakers for a 2.0 setup in a giant space. If I needed to spend a quarter million dollars on a pair of speakers or more for a custom finish, for a palace or something, they seem like a good choice. I do not see myself going that big.
You get very deep into diminishing returns by $5k per speaker, and at that point, you need to consider a lot of things, like subs, surround, treatment, dsp, sources, electronics.
Focal is a good brand for this discussion because they have a big factory in France, they do make good speakers, and they go up to some extravagant stuff. They even offer custom finishes like gold.
Of course a Klipsch fan would probably tell you to get the Belles off the secret menu or Khorns or something that cost far less and have much less impressive objective performance.
And then there are Revel Salons, all the good powered speakers, the good JBLs, all the botique stuff, some of which is not bad, and on and on.