To be honest with a utopia, I’d be wanting to spend at minimum around the 2k range used for an amp, and 2k range used for a dac, but I’m going to guess that’s not where you would prefer to spend based on this post lol
Well if you had to keep things around 1k ish combined, you would kinda be picking things that might prioritize the verite over the utopia, because to be honest I don’t really enjoy the utopia on any of the 500 ish buck amps I can think of, the rnhp would be my first choice out of the bunch but it’s still super lackluster on there, so at that point I might just instead focus on getting a decent quality pairing for the verite and focusing on an appropriate amp for the utopia later down the line.
Out of what you listed, if you could find a vio v2xx that would be pretty great for what you are after (spacious soundstage, great dynamics, good clarity, with decent richness, but not super well extended in the treble so the soekris would be needed to help correct that) you could pair it with a soekris dac and be pretty well off imo. I wouldn’t go for the audio gd if you want to maintain refinement and technicalities imo, the gilmore lite mk2 is brighter with good tonal density, but spatially and dynamically only ok and it wouldn’t be my first choice personally. The aforementioned rnhp would be my pick if you had to go utopia and you would pair it with a bifrost 2, but it is indeed somewhat meh with the verite (also spatially the neve is quite good, it’s just on the smaller side of stage but with great depth to make up for it’s lack of width). The g111 would be a good compromise for the utopia and the vc so that might be the most will rounded option if you can’t swing a vio, and yes timbre is only average but you could improve that by pairing with a bf2 or ares ii dac. The lehmann is nice but admittedly nothing to write home about, but I haven’t tried that one with any zmf
I think if you were able to bump your amp budget to more around 1-1.5k, you would be able to get a lot more out of your cans (and keep a dac budget of around 700-1k)
Edit: so I forgot to talk about your dacs. So the modi multibit is fine, but honestly I would really want something higher end here overall
And another note, I think a few tube amps around 1k actually might meet your needs better than some of the solid state in that range for what you seem to be looking for (for both the utopia and the verite)