The V8s follow KRK's visually distinctive style — matt‑grey cabinets, rounded corners and yellow, woven Kevlar drivers. Power the monitors up (a switch on/off delay prevents thumping) and a small yellow arrowhead lights up on the V8 logo. Built from heavy MDF, the V8 cabinets have a slot‑shaped port at the bottom of the baffle. Each encloses 20 litres and measures a compact 11x16x12 inches. An eight‑inch bass/mid driver with a roll rubber surround crosses over to a soft‑domed, one‑inch tweeter at 1.66kHz — a somewhat lower frequency than on most systems of this size. The tweeter is driven by a 70W amplifier and the bass/mid by a 130W amplifier. Both drivers are magnetically shielded to make the V8s suitable for use in audio‑visual or computer monitor environments. Active speaker protection is included for both drivers with a reset button on the back of the cabinet. The sub‑bass filtering prevents excessive driver excursions at very low frequencies: here a 12dB/octave filter is used that's 3dB down at 31Hz.
Audio connection is via a Neutrik balanced combo connector that can accept either an XLR or a balanced/unbalanced jack. A gain trim is provided to adjust the input sensitivity to suit the output from a mixer or other signal source. To help compensate for room acoustics, there are two three‑way toggle switches to modify the frequency response of the system. The bass roll‑off can be set to 45Hz, 50Hz or 65Hz; the HF can be set to +/‑1dB, as well as flat. The overall frequency response is quoted as 47Hz to 23kHz, +/‑2dB.