Rowland JRDG 501 and Wilson Audio


I plan to buy WP/8 or Sophia 2. Is this a good match?
What will be an alternative speaker choice?
I will keep the Rowlands for amplification.
soundoc
Most ICe amps will sound painful in combination with the Focal titanium tweeter Wilson uses. Perhaps the 201/501 would be less bad with Rowland's new outboard power supplies, but I would still think you want an analog amp with Wilsons (PS - What made you decide to buy Wilsons?).
For what it's worth, the only times I heard the
Watt Puppies sound really nice and smooth was with Levinson 33Hs and
Transparent cable at the old Soundex in Pennslyvania.
I think the preamp was Levinson also.
Otherwise they sound scratchy to me.
I found the 201s had no soundstage or depth on the Sophias. Quite stale/sterile sounding and suffering in dynamics.

I had Nuforces Ref 9s on my Sophias that sounded phenomenal. As I said earlier, ymmv.