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One avenue to follow is to search for images on sites like Astrobin for images shot with the scopes you are looking at as candidates.
The best scope on earth will still produce poor results out of poor processing, but if you find a healthy number of good images from different people (In case someone has found some processing tricks, fair or foul, to overcome problems with a scope) using a scope you are considering then there is a fair chance they are a good scope.
It is not a sure thing. I bought my Stellarvue SVX80 on the basis of shooting with a friends SV70. If there had been an SVX70 (Which replaced the SV70) available at the time, I would have bought one like a shot, but what I was comparing it to was a Celestron RASA 8".
I could not find many images shot through the RASA 8" that I would have been happy to publish at that time, so I bought the SVX80 (Which I am still very happy with) but now there are some really good images appearing from the RASA.
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