John A. Westlake

John A. Westlake
Born July 1970
Occupation Hi Fi designer

John Alexander Westlake (born July 1970) – a Hi Fi designer of British and Czech origin.

Career

Westlake started his Hi Fi career in his early twenties while working for a Hi Fi company Pink Triangle. He designed the Pink Triangle DaCapo digital to analog converter in 1995. He then moved on working for Cambridge Audio, designing many of their award winning products - Cambridge Audio DACMagic digital to analog converter, CD4, CD4SE, CD6, DAC 123, ISO Magic etc.

He has also been working with semiconductor companies that patent some of his technologies: UK patent on Feedback controller for PWM amplifier, International patent on a signal processing circuit. John Westlake is known for his work on Class D amplifier technology.

In 2008, after years of research and working for semiconductor companies, he started his own company - Lakewest Audio & returned to designing Hi Fi products. He is the designer behind the Peachtree Audio Nova D / A integrated amplifier that was voted a Budget Product of the Year 2009 by Stereophile magazine.[1] Peachtree Decco2 integrated amplifier & the Peachtree iDecco – Tube Hybrid Integrated Amp with "Pure Digital" iPod Dock. His recent designs include the Audiolab 8200 CD player – an award winning Best Product of the Year 2010 and Best Product of the Year 2011 by What HiFi Sound & Vision magazine.[2][3]

Followed by Audiolab 8200CDQ – all in one CD player, DAC and pre-amplifier. His latest addition to the Audiolab brand is the M-DAC, a new standalone D/A converter - voted a Best Product of the Year 2011 by What HiFi Sound & Vision magazine.[4]

Patents

References

  1. ↑ "Stereophile's Products of 2009". Stereophile.com. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  2. ↑ http://awards.whathifi.com/winners/cd-players/2010
  3. ↑ http://www.whathifi.com/awards/2011/cd-players
  4. ↑ "What Hi-Fi? Awards 2015 - The best tech products of the year". www.whathifi.com. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
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