Anyone have heard of Tangent RS-8 speakers

Yes I did audition them many years ago. I worked at a store that carried the RS-2 and sold a few pairs of TM-3's.
We did not carry the RS-8 but did get a good listen at a store in Watertown Mass.

The one thing all their speakers did was give a great big soundstage with front to back depth. Rare in those days!
Bass was lacking a bit, more of a "British sound" I would say.

As I recall they needed quite a bit of power to drive them. It is hard to say how they would stack up today. The speakers and all equipment have made great strides!
Hope this helps!

Thank you Ck. You're correct that technology has evolved to a much higher standard today. It was able to perform quite well back then one can imagine how well it can perform when it hook up to the best amp, preamp, source and cables today.

The Tangent speakers used the Audax bextrene 8" bass/mid. drivers These drivers were very inefficient(around 84db) and wouldn't handle much input(rated at 25 watts) but they were very musical with a punchy bass down to around 40-50hz. My memory of the Tangents is quite positive but that was a long time ago. The only way to determine how they hold up to more modern designs is to listen and compare.

Peak Audio here in Halifax sold a lot of Tangents. A friend of mine still has a pair but his current speaker is an older pair of spenders. Another friend is running his tangents with an older rotel intergrated and cd player 855. Very balanced sound. Very listenable. If you can get them cheap they are easy to live with. I remember when he brought the tangents over to try in place of my Angstrom references. Well, the tiny tangents smoked them in every way except bass dept. I dumped the angstroms soon after. I was using the nad 3020 at the time. Good luck.

Does anybody happen to know the fair price for an pair of RS-8, assuming at least 8/10 condition?