B&W is certainly one of the most popular speakers in audio. The reason they don't get mentioned is that many audiophiles find them lacking in some of the next level attributes of transparency and detail. A number of folks have said the next tier up from B&W are the Vivid Audio loudspeakers. Vivid has taken the technologies introduced at B&W and have refined them and added to them to a degree that is special and a real step forward. This is attributed to the brilliant engineering abilities of Laurence Dickie.