The problem for me is that the last Ruckus 8's I touched were a job up in Cape Cod about 2 years ago. I haven't been able to do a side by side comparison. I really liked the Ruckus 8's 2+ years ago, but now use only the Episodes for jobs that call for Rock Speakers. The last job I did with the Episodes were fed by a Episode 12 channel amp feeding 4 rocks and 4 channels left over to feed speakers on the deck. Source is a Nuvo P100. The client absolutely loved it. He had a 4th of July party out there and was thrilled with it. He is Irish and he said it is "the dog's bullocks". I don't know what that means, but it sounds good ;-)