英国B&W公司经过30几年的不断创新与发展，以尽可能忠实的重现录音现场效果为宗旨，对音乐的追求与热爱为动力。至今B&W一直是录音音响史上最显著的成就者。如 Matrix801 监控器被许多人士认为是最完美的，多少电台或录音室对它进行采用后来，正是人们将其用来衡量其他产品的基准。
    B&W 扬声器几乎最为行业的标准。包括 EMI Abbey Road 及Deutsche Grammophon 的世界各地录音室中广泛采用。当今制作的80% 以上的古典唱片均是通过 B&W 扬声器的监控。
    Nautilus 大概是有史以来最好的扬声器，它对高保真技术的深远影响一直延伸进入二十一世纪。1995年诞生的 Nautilus 是 B&W 公司的顶级扬声器，它运用了许多革命性的技术。后来 B&W 公司运用同样技术，发展成一个全新的 Nautilus-800系列。该系列中的产品都具有无与伦比的性能价格比，可满足音响发烧友的最高要求，致使 EMI Abbey Road 录音室再次对Nautilus进行采用，Abbey Road 录音室的前总工程师 Alan Parsons认为新N-801是“专业录音世界的一次核爆炸”。同时适合民用与专业用途的Nautilus-800 系列在音响清晰度方面的确是一个里程碑。
    Nautilus-800系列的成功令 B&W 继续应用来自 Nautilus 的技术。如今，新一系列的扬声器价格较低，适合纯音乐和家庭影院，性价比更高。原来的600系列已为 B&W 带来巨大的成功，今日的 600 Series 2 在低频动态表现上进一步改善，并让音染和失真降至最低，结像力与透明度更绝。

Throughout his lifetime, John Bowers, the founder of B&W Loudspeakers, strove relentlessly to get as close as possible to a transparent reproduction of recorded sound.

Born in 1923, near Worthing on the south coast of England, John spent the war years as a special operations executive in clandestine radio contact with allied resistance operatives in occupied Europe. He specialised in electronics and radio-transmission and after the war he opened a retail hi-fi store in Worthing with his business partner Roy Wilkins.

One of John’s passions was classical music. An avid concertgoer, he was disappointed by the sound reproduction that the best equipment of the day offered and set about improving the quality by modifying existing loudspeakers. Eventually, he started building his own designs in the workshop at the back of his hi-fi store.

In his relentless pursuit of perfection, John quickly built a reputation for himself, and his client base started to grow as more and more people seeking better sound reproduction came to his workshop to buy his custom-designed speakers. One of his greatest fans early on in his career was an elderly lady, a Miss Knight, who was so impressed with his knowledge of classical music and so pleased with the speakers he made for her that she left him £10,000 in her will for him to develop the business and pursue his research. So, in 1966, John Bowers and his lifelong friend Peter Hayward founded a separate manufacturing company, then called B&W Electronics, transferring to part of the present site at Meadow Road, Worthing in 1972. They agreed from the outset to live modestly and plough any profits back into the business to further research into the quest for the perfect loudspeaker.

At this time, much of the interaction between loudspeakers and their surroundings was not well understood. The basic motor principle and electric circuits were common knowledge, but what happens to a cone under dynamic conditions was unknown because the movements were too small and rapid to visualise. These were the days before lasers, with their ability to detect minute vibrations. John hired extremely talented engineers and invested in the development of diagnostic tools and measurement equipment and in 1976 he opened a dedicated R&D department with a team of specialist acoustic and electronic engineers who had a wealth of modelling, testing and design tools at their disposal.

Throughout his career John enjoyed a close relationship with recording engineers who provided vital feedback on how loudspeakers could be improved. As a result of this relationship, B&W’s famous 801 was launched in 1979 and soon became the reference speaker in nearly all of the world’s classical recording studios, including EMI Abbey Road, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon.

The phenomenal success of this product pushed B&W to the fore of all loudspeaker manufacturers. In typical fashion, John Bowers used this success to fund even more research and development, and in 1982 he created a dedicated research and development facility for his team of engineers in the picturesque village of Steyning in West Sussex. Dubbed the “University of Sound”, the Steyning Research Establishment now houses some 20 graduate engineers and support staff with expertise in a wide range of disciplines.

John realised that, to have a truly successful company, it is not sufficient simply to have outstanding products. They have to be backed up by efficient sales and marketing support. Never content to rely on the home market, he always looked to develop a strong export base and quickly developed overseas markets and further the presence of B&W products worldwide.

John passed away in 1987. Now under the chairmanship of Joe Atkins, supported by a strong team of dedicated people from many different parts of the world, reflecting its global outlook, B&W has enjoyed substantial growth in recent years. But the passion for music, so deeply engrained by John Bowers and remembered by many still at B&W that worked for him in the early days, remains a core value of the company he founded.

Milestones in B&W history 1960s   
1966 Creation of B&W Electronics Ltd.
1967 The first commercial B&W Loudspeaker: the P1 , which was built with EMI bass unit and Celestion tweeters.
1968 First distributor appointed – Audioscript in Holland.
DM1 and DM3 (DM stands for Domestic Monitor) are launched.
1969 Dennis Ward, former technical manager at EMI joins the board.
1970s   
1970 First monitor built entirely in-house: the DM70C.  
1972 B&W moves to purpose-built factory at Meadow Road, Worthing.
Launch of D5 and DM4 Loudspeakers.
1973 B&W receives the Queen’s Award for Export.
B&W build programme content monitors for the BBC.
1974 Appointment of industrial designer, Kenneth Grange.
Introduction of DuPont's Kevlar® brand fibre, an extremely tough woven material originally designed for bulletproof vests. B&W developed and patented the method of using Kevlar® for loudspeaker cones to reduce unwanted standing waves.
1976 Launch of the DM6, the first linear phase speaker manufactured in the UK, which was dubbed "The pregnant penguin" because of its stepped baffle enclosure.
1977 The DM7 is launched, which features a free standing tweeter configuration on top of the cabinet to reduce diffraction.
1978 B&W receives its second Queen’s Award for Export in recognition for a tenfold increase in export sales since 1973.
1979 The now classic studio monitor, the 801 is launched. It is tested by EMI and adopted as its standard classical monitor. Decca installs the 801 in all their recording studios.
1980s   
1981 The DM10 and DM23 are launched, as is the DM22 with its new grille design from Kenneth Grange.
1982 Creation of B&W Research Establishment in Steyning, West Sussex, England.
1983 Launch of the DM110 and DM220 – the first digital monitors to match the high dynamics of the compact disc. DM now stands for "Digital Monitor".
1984 The launch of the acclaimed John Bowers Active 1.
The strap line “Listen and you’ll see” is introduced.
1986 The 20th Anniversary of B&W – World Distributor Convention in Montreux.
Launch of Matrix technology in cabinet construction.
1987 Launch of Matrix 801 .
Death of John Bowers in December.
1990s   
1990 B&W enters the custom in-wall speaker market with CWM6 and CWM8.
1991 Launch of prestigious Silver Signature to commemorate the company’s 25th anniversary.
1992 Expansion of production facilities at Silverdale site in Worthing, West Sussex, to cope with increases in product demand.
1993 Introduction of Nautilus – after 5 years of research and development the closest to perfect sound reproduction in loudspeaker technology is launched.
Introduction of THX® Home Theatre Audio System.
1998 Introduction of casa, a unique multi-room system using active in-wall loudspeakers and a control unit to distribute sound from centralised source components.
Launch of prestigious Nautilus 800 Series, a technical and design advancement of the Matrix 800 series using technology derived from the Nautilus speaker and superior cabinet craftsmanship.
1999 Launch of 600 Series 2 which, by including elements of Nautilus Technology, redefines its market sector.
Launch of lifestyle products - the versatile LM1 and, for outdoor use, the weatherproof WP1.
2000s   
2001 New dedicated B&W showrooms are opened in Shanghai, Istanbul, Rome and Hong Kong.
2002
B&W moves its Worthing production, warehousing and head office to new premises in Dale Road.
B&W starts work on a second plant in Bradford, England.

2003
B&W acquires its own cabinet manufacturing plant in Agerbæk, Denmark.