Any experience with Verity Parsifal monitor ONLY?

I reckon you should contact the mfgr., they'll give the most up to date info...

-RW-

Not 100% sure they're currently selling them separately, but I'd be surprised if they aren't. If you pull the literature on the parsifal, you'll see it's always speced out for both the monitor and the full system, separately. And if you're patient, they come up here (and elsewhere) used as monitors from time to time. Think the retail is in the ballpark of 10k. I've got a "matching set" (for lack of a better word). I've often toyed with the idea of trying out the monitors by themselves, just to see/hear, but have actually never bothered to undertake the ordeal of moving the speaker cables an entire foot and a half. It being approximately as hard as tying a shoe is apparently too much for me.

Would love to hear more about this too.

Am also considering getting the Parsifal Monitors.

I have owned both versions of the Parsifal and have listen to just the monitors with each of them. They sound very detailed, have a very wide and deep sound stage thou deeper with the bass section. They also seem disappear as the music comes from all sides of the speaker. They also sound awesome when being used for near field listening. They have been sold as monitors for as long as I can remember. A friend purchased the monitors years ago first then later the bass section when cash flow got better. They do take time to break in, IMO around 500 hours.

I've had my P/E for almost 15 years and IMO they're actually pretty good as stand-alone monitors. I wouldn't call this the most neutral design ever, but most music sounds very, very good (to my ear) via the Verity P/E. The monitors, as stand alone speakers, have a satisfying octave to octave balance for most music (including IMHO most rock n roll), but the bottom 1 1/2 octaves are MIA.

The bass modules extend the bottom end seamlessly, but add a hump around the top of the lowest octave and (according to my ear and RTA) little real power much below 40ish hz. When mated to subs (I've tried Velodyne SPLs and Rythmiks) the bottom end sounds quite different than using the monitors with Verity's own bass modules. Given any particular sub vs the Verity bass modules, "better or worse" will be probably be all in the ear of the listener.

Some may prefer the subs (and my guess is that good subs will measure better), but I prefer the all Verity combo. As noted above, YMMV.