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, International Organization for Standardization Magic et cetera
He has also been working with semiconductor companies that patent some of his technologies: United Kingdom patent on Feedback controller for PWM amplifier, International patent on a signal processing circuit.
John Westlake is known for his work on Class Doctorate 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 Doctorate / A integrated amplifier that was voted a Budget Product of the Year 2009 by Stereophile magazine. Peachtree Decco2 integrated amplifier & the Peachtree iDecco – Tube Hybrid Integrated Amp with "Pure Digital" iPod Dock.
His recent designs include the Audiolab 8200 Civil Defense player – an award winning Best Product of the Year 2010 and Best Product of the Year 2011 by What HiFi Sound & Vision magazine.
Followed by Audiolab 8200CDQ – all in one Civil Defense player, DAC and pre-amplifier. His latest addition to the Audiolab brand is the M-DAC, a new standalone Doctorate/A converter - voted a Best Product of the Year 2011 by What HiFi Sound & Vision magazine. United Kingdom Patent 65135GB on "Feedback Controller for PWM Amplifier"
United States of America Patent 7046080 on "A Signal Processing Circuit".
