John A. Westlake
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John A. Westlake | |
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| 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
- UK Patent 65135GB on "Feedback Controller for PWM Amplifier"
- United States of America Patent 7046080 on "A Signal Processing Circuit"
References
- ^ "Stereophile's Products of 2009". Stereophile.com. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
- ^ http://awards.whathifi.com/winners/cd-players/2010
- ^ http://www.whathifi.com/awards/2011/cd-players
- ^ "What Hi-Fi? Awards 2015 - The best tech products of the year". www.whathifi.com. Retrieved 2016-02-24.