Anyone have heard of Tangent RS-8 speakers

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?

I recently finished a refurbish job on a set of the Tangent RS6's which use the same drivers as the RS8's, the Kef T27 and the Audax bass mid (two in the RS 6's in a two and a half way configuration and no lack of bottom end here). I was a dealer in the 80's and we sold many of the Tangents with NAD, Hafler, Michaelson and Austin and Bedini for amplification.

Sensitivity was low, in the 88-89 dB range if memory serves me right and thoroughly British in all respects. Plywood veneer cabinets, quality crossover parts and very decent drivers. I paid $150.00 for a set of RS6's in early spring from California.

I've searched for RS8's but yours are the first I've seen mentioned.

I owned a pair . They ran $1600.00 the pair and they were the best dynamic I had ever heard. The RS-8 was the only true three way they made, beautiful rosewood cabinets. One big disadvantage: the woofers were made by Dalesford, a 10"bextrene unit prone to voice coil damage if driven at high levels and no replacements available (or equivalent).Since then I have built my own speakers,and all have turned out superior to them.