Sounds like you need a Sig Somethin' Extra with a nice .50 2 stroke.
They can handle speed and ANYTHING you can throw it at, except the ground...You can throw them around like no other at higher speeds than anything else. A profile like the Exrta Special will fall apart at high speeds (flutter, major sections failing).
Set up correctly you can fly around at full throttle with a Rossi .45 and a pipe...Then throw in some of the quickest snap rolls you will ever see. Somethin' Extra is the only airplane I know of that has such a wide range of flight. It will do anything!
I don't think there is a bang around airplane that can match the Somethin' Extra for strength, design, and capability.
Afte that, you can decide what you really want to do. You might end up moving onto a Morris airplane if 3D get's in your blood...