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
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.
Yeap, that's the problem of the 201s. . . they definitely lack 'lung' capacity for relatively large speakers like the Sophias or my Mahlers. I am not surprised that the NuForces did well on your Sophias. . . I have used the Nuforce Ref 9V2SE on my own Vienna Mahlers, which are probably more difficult to drive than Sophias, and Nuforce monos control them with aplomb. On a different system I have also heard the JRDG 501s being plenty confy on the Mahler's. . . conversely the 201s can't drive the big Vienna Mahlers to any satisfactory degree.
Those were WP6's way back in 1999. By the way,
I owned them with a Pass X350 and they sounded tizzy.
Raquel:
what do you mean with "painful". are the focal titanium tweteer with the Rowlands to sharp in the high frequencies? is this also the case with ceramic or diamond tweeters?
I have a large listening room and I need a fullrange system. So I decided to go with Wilson Audio.
Why spend customers thousands of dollars to treat their listening room, when in the least case only a Wilson plays music?