The Parker Excalibur is one of the best speakers I've heard REGARDLESS of price. It sounds much better than some $20,000+ speakers I've heard.

Tom

I walked in and I couldn't help but sit right down. Lush, wide, deep and detailed - I could have stayed all afternoon.

The source of my beguilement was the Parker Audio Excalibur. This features a Heil tweeter and an unfiltered 10" driver that naturally begins to roll off at about 5khz. Their Catapult subwoofer was also present and performing.

Upstream was a homemade SET amp and tube buffer, Camelot Uther DAC, Genesis Timelens and Parasound CD player as transport.

I'll be completely honest, I did find excuses to spend some more time back in this room a few more times during the show.

Arvind Kohli

 Tnt Audio

What really strikes me about the Trolls is the mid range palpability and mid bass punch.  The timbre, tone, and decay of drums is world class.  Being that I'm a drummer, you can probably guess that that is very satisfying for me. 

I am hoping to upgrade components around the Trolls because they sound so good now, that I am thinking some further tweaking will make this system something that I have for a long time to come.   Most of the components set up around the Trolls are considerably more expensive.  Normally when that is the case the lesser cost components are the weak spot in the system.  This is not the case with the Trolls.

Thanks again for everything.

Best Regards,

Jim

I was excited to hear a speaker designed specifically for an SE84C or SE84CS because it would be another killer recommended  loudspeaker at around the same low cost as the amp.  I was most impressed with the Parker 95's.  They disappear well, have an easy to listen to signature that is smooth and well extended in both directions.  They do not require a sub to sound right, the bass is full without bloat, and they get plenty loud with a Zen.  I feel it's a speaker that will sound right in almost any room because of its slightly relaxed and very musical signature.       

Steve Deckert

I own three sets of Parker Audio speakers.  They have replaced Meadowlark, Theil and NHT.  One of the many things the Parkers do over the others is imaging.  The imaging is surreal!  The midrange these speakers reproduce is nothing short of world class!  The imaging extends in all directions, not just limited to depth.  The walls of my listening room are gone when playing back music on the Parkers.  The top end is smooth and extended and the bass frequencies are right there to back it up...tight, crisp, clean and fast.  Of the latter, these are some of the fastest speakers I have had in my system.  They can keep up with anything I have ever heard regardless of price. 

I notice how real and present both female and male vocals are reproduced on the Parkers.  In a word...Stunning!

Wiley

After discussing my needs with Dave, he agreed to build a custom pair of bookshelf speakers for me based on the Parker Audio Troll platform. A high quality ribbon driver replaced the standard tweeter and the "Troll Signature" was born ..... This is one fantastic little speaker ..... at 92 db efficiency and a 6 ohm impedance it works very nicely with my 8 watt 300B amplifier.

These puppies absolutely disappear (as any really good bookshelf monitor should) and do very well at filling my 26' x 16' listening room with music...... for anyone looking for a fine, inexpensive ($734.00 pair) speaker to mate with their amplifier, I can give the Troll Signature a hearty "two thumbs up" .....

Randy

Special thanks to Steve Deckert for my Zen SE84B and to Dave Dutill, for the Parker 95's - a match made in heaven.  Less money, more music.  Yes!      

  Mark Kirby

I have to say that from the moment I started listening to them, the Parker Audio 95 MkIIs sounded excellent. I was totally blown away by just how smooth, detailed, focused and fast they were. When you start hearing new details, new textures in music you have known and loved for years then you KNOW you are onto something good and I was hearing a lot of new stuff with these speakers!      Click here for Johns Speaker building Journey 

 John Bloor

Getting to the sound.  These speakers ROCK!   They get about as loud as I would ever want to listen to on a daily basis, well above 90dbs on sustained levels, perhaps more than 100dbs!   But it is rare to find speakers this small get this loud with a Select.  I would say if you like to listen to music fairly loud, then with a Select these speakers are one of your best options.  We listened to some Classical and some Jazz music.  Very satisfying bass, as low as most speakers seem to go that you would but at Best Buy.  They are not bass heavy, and the quality is excellent, tight with no boominess.  His have the fostex tweeter, as the Signature models have a ribbon tweeter, and I thought it sounded just fine, no obvious resonances or harshness I could detect.  The only crossover is a single capacitor on the tweeter.

As a speaker builder it is nice to hear a speaker that gets the job done, there are more disappointing speakers out there than nice ones.  These speakers are a testimony to how good a bass reflex speaker can sound, they have none of the usual colorations that bass reflex is known for.

The Parkers are in from the side walls by a foot or more, and I found they sound a bit better a little distance away from them, I was astounded by how loud they got, especially for how small they are.  All I can say is in about every area they exceeded my expectations, and I would be very happy with them.  The had not unique sound of their own that I can mention, they weren't bright, or dull, or laid back, they just sounded good, very easy to listen to.

Terry
 

I have been planning a system for my bedroom based on a Zen Select triode for ages and it is finally up and running.....................I am running it with the Parker 95MKII's and it is a match made in heaven.       

Larry  Crimmins

I just spent a delightful evening listening to a Zen Select driving a set of custom-made high-efficiency speakers (Parker 95 MKII) that were designed for "flea-powered" amps.  We listened to several albums. It was sublime, involving, musical, emotionally resonant.........words are too limited to describe it.  I listened to favorite albums that sounded new all over again.  Experiences like these are not quantifiable.           

Bob

Your 98's combined with the little SE84CS is by far the best setup I have ever had.  In fact, nothing I've ever had comes near competing with the combination of the Decware amp and the Parker 98's.

The headroom one gets with a single select is absolutely mind-boggling, and the intelligibility and lack of congestion in large sounding complex passages, such as piano, symphony and choral textures is absolutely amazing.  

Many serious listeners that have heard them at my place have been absolutely astounded; including musician friends who do a lot of live recording of classical recitals and concerts; for whom I've played their recordings through my system. Half of everyone I know is or have been professional musicians, including myself and my wife.

Karl Jensen

Last evening, magic finally arrived, with the new 98's voicing themselves in a manner that allowed the upright bass to be within touching distance.  The piano notes floated and paused.....................
And the horns were spine tingling in their presentation.  Went in and out of the room several times and the ambience and presence was the same each time I returned.

The symbiosis has arrived.

Mrdi

They are a well rounded speaker with a quite neutral and balanced signature; no noticeably objectionable peaks or dips. The bass extension is fairly low, fast, and quite a bit less tubby than normally heard in tall bass reflex cabinets. The midrange is coherent and well defined, with good clarity, and the highs are exceptionally fast, clean, and warm sounding. Doesn't sound thick, doesn't sound thin, it just sounds good.

I'd say the 98 Signature model sounds far better than anything that costs so little has any right to, for sure.

Eddie Vaughn

I find the parkers fronting the Imperials to be the best combination of speakers with all of the Decware amps.
 
Tim

Dissapear they do.. I've had mine for over three years now and to be honest never really think about them. They look nice, but don't scream for attention. They sound terrific....................... Whenever I eye my system and think of what could make it better, I never even think of the Parkers. I guess that's the best compliment I can give them.

BrettJM

You see just about 1 week ago I went  to a small Audio specialty store that had on display The Wilson Maxx Series 3 Speakers which lets say its very,very expensive 70K for the pair, plus 10k for ARC'S Reference CD7 cd player, 25K for the amps ,10K for the preamp,3.5K for power filtering and maybe 10k in IC's and power cords from Transparent AUDIO. SO THIS SYSTEM I HEARD COST ALMOST 130k.

Well I got news for you from the midrange thru the extreme highs I preferred the sound of my system to what I listened to 1 week ago on that special set up.  I played a cut from the Firebird Suite 1919 a 96K 24 bit special file available from ITRACK web site. The high freq. extension went out to infinity on the Parker 95's with tremendous air and spaciousness and I could clearly hear the actual acoustic space the orchestra was playing in so easily.

I really was sucked into the performance with the micro dynamics as well as the huge difference in the ppp passages and the final climax last cords. I was grinning ear to ear when this 25 minute track finished and said WOW!  I have them in my 13 foot wide by 27 foot living room with standard 8 foot ceiling heavy insulated from above.  I am still experimenting with speaker placement from the first 5 hours of playing. I bought these speakers used so I assume they are already well broken in.   I have already played every imaginable type of music from this combo and its holding its own with the best around.  I need to speak with Mr. Parker and find out what sub. would mate well with his 95 Signatures.  Oh while I 'm remembering I played a cut with light Jazz from Diana Krall and was able to hear light drum stroking with drum brushes all the way through the entire song.  It never was buried underneath a fog or haze but was clearly heard in the background as you were there in person.  What a revelation this was to my ears and the high end system never came anywhere close to doing this.

 I extend my gratitude for all your hard work and continuation of making  affordable audiophile gear to those with less discretionary income available.
Again I as trombone player for the past 40 years and playing bass trombone for the past 20 years in The Skagit Symphony offers me a unique insight into the sound of live music and both of you have achived this in spades.

Again Thank You Very Much

Don Curry