Just bought used Wilson audio Sophia 1 and Wilson audio center channel comments

The Sophia 1 is quite special, I have had mine for 9 years and are using them in a two channel system which I have just recently posted on the virtual systems on agon if you would like to see some of the associated equipment I am using them with please take a look. Some notes here, I also had a pair of the Sophia 2s and preferred the 1s which I have kept, have used them with Pass Labs Canary, CJ solid state and settled on the VTLS as you will see in the system and they allowed each application to really shine there strengths but didn't realize how good they were till I pulled a 30 year old B&K ST140 out of my closet to use while I had the VTL rebuilt and was really blown away. The preference for the 1s over the 2s is probably not the general consensus for most but did have both at the same time. Enjoy those bad boys and congratulations. Tooblue

Hi Guys :

Thank you all for your inputs. I appreciate it.  Hopefully I have the proper amplifyer the Marantz pre amp mainly because I wanted the 4K pass thru and 2.0  with balanced outputs.(have a 4K TV)   Would have liked the similar parasound or Krell or Mac etc,  But the price tag with those features is beyond me. But the parasound power amp 5 channel  125W into 8ohm 225 into 4ohm load Should be addequate to drive the sophia  I hope.

So Thanks Again for your input

Norm L

Hey norm
Again there great speakers,like i said i have only heard them in a two channel cj set up.I can say your amp may drive them but they would sing if you stepped up a level eventually in your amp section.
Respect ...

Great purchase and I think you will be happy for a long time. One thing I have noticed when upgrading my speakers to better quality is they reflect a light on weaknesses in other parts of your system. It will be interesting to see how your marantz and parasound amps perform with the sofia's. Best wishes.

One of the better things about the original Sophias is that they sound good even with fairly inexpensive electronics (note tooblue's comment about that old B&K), the first Wilson speaker to really be able to make that claim.  I think your electronics should work fine with them.