I'm familiar with B&W and own several pair of Dynaudio. In my opinion Dynaudio is a far superior speaker in every aspect to B&W. I thought their top of the Nautilus paled in comparison to my Dyn Contour 2.1t and the B&W cost twice as much. In a 3 way shoot out we listened to a Thiel, I'm not sure the model but they retailed at $2,200., a pair of Acoustic Energy towers ($699.) and a pair of Dynaudio A52's. The AE's were out classed by both. The 52's had far superior bass response to the other two. I preferred the 52's out of the 3. The Thiels were a sweet sounding speaker, layed back and musical. I like the Thiel sound better than B&W. I prefer Dynaudio because the frequency response sounded wider, more dynamic and quick and very obviously better bass, more of it and it was still accurate and clean.