I've owned the 8's for a couple of years and have listened to the Super 8's at a dealer. Different rooms and very different amplification so it wasn't a direct comparison. The Super 8's are clearly better, about in proportion to their price difference, but the 8's are so good that I don't have any regrets at all about buying them.
For me it was a cost/benefit decision. I had a pair of used 8's available and the new Super 8's were two and half times the price of the 8's.
Over the three or four years before I got the 8's I'd had four pair of speakers at roughly the same price as the 8's, all from very well-regarded builders. For my ears, the 8's are so much better than any of the other speakers I'd owned that I haven't been motivated to move up. When I do, I'm sure it will be to Devore Super 8's or even to the 9's. As Jondkaufman said, I don't think you can go wrong.
For me it was a cost/benefit decision. I had a pair of used 8's available and the new Super 8's were two and half times the price of the 8's.
Over the three or four years before I got the 8's I'd had four pair of speakers at roughly the same price as the 8's, all from very well-regarded builders. For my ears, the 8's are so much better than any of the other speakers I'd owned that I haven't been motivated to move up. When I do, I'm sure it will be to Devore Super 8's or even to the 9's. As Jondkaufman said, I don't think you can go wrong.