Upgrading from Wilson Sophia 2's?

it is inexcusable to have speakers costing over 10 grand (or for that matter ONE grand) that sound this disappointing. the sophias are good transducers, no question, but raising this many issues in (what sounds like) a decent room with very good components upstream just doesn't add up. i'll bet a pair of eggleston andra's (or similar speakers like sonus fabers or von schweikerts) would sound very natural and unforced, while giving up very little in resolution. and you can get a used pair for a song...

i have been reading speaker reviews for the last 15-20 years or so, and i am always struck by the models that sound good right away with little or no set-up issues, VERSUS those that take forever to place/break in/modify the room acoustics/change the wires-the cdp-switch to tubes, etc. guess what? go back to the eggl.andra review and read how nice it sounded right off the bat. this also was the case with the sonus faber extremas. i personally compared the andras to the wilson X-1's (same room), and they sounded much more natural. at the stereophile show in miami, the watt-puppy 5.1's sounded horrible, WITH tube amps AND vinyl, while the sf extrema's, in a similar untreated room, sounded spectacular. while these are my own subjective impressions, when people are spending 5 min. or less listening to the W/P's, and staying for 20 min. or more just so they can move to the center seats to better audition the sf's, i must not be completely crazy. in still another room, the sf electra amators, driven by carver gear, were placed practically on the floor facing my pants' legs, and THEY sounded really good; even playboy magazine praised them in an article.
i am looking at the system above and it is composed of sota components. the sophias should by all rights be fine tuned by peter mcgrath himself (of wilson audio) FOR YOU so they finally sound the way they should, or your money back. after all, he does it for mikey fremer... speaking of which, i am SHOCKED to read in the sept.stereophile that vanderstein quattros ($11k) had a more transparent midrange than his highly lauded MAXX-2'S ($45K).
oh, one more sore point. the dealer i go to has a "disappointing" listening room even by their own admission.
i went to hear the maxx-2's twice with different front-ends, and the tweeeter was too hot. BUT, when they rolled out the alexandrias (the originals) the room was no longer an issue. everything sounded "fine" (okay, extraordinary), with just the very slightest edge reminding you that they were still wilson speakers. which bugs me even more- for $125k, you get speakers that approach the ideal, and can handle virtually unlimited volume without the bass turning mushy or the upper mids getting screechy- IN a "lousy" room. SO i "think" i know what's going on here, but i'll let others chime in with their own impressions.