About
Greetings, hi-fi enthusiasts, I’m Jhary. Welcome to Audio Notes, a place for musings about my audio experiences.1
Audio Notes is my corner of the internet for thinking out loud about music—the stuff that shaped me, the stuff I missed the first time around, and the stuff I’m still discovering with a pair of aging-but-loyal GenX ears. I came of age in the era of mixtapes, scratched CDs riding around in the glovebox, and early-morning MTV when it still played actual videos. Those habits never left: I still listen closely, sometimes obsessively, and I write to make sense of what I’m hearing.
I’m trained in literary studies, which means I can’t help but approach albums the same way I approach novels or poems: as crafted expressions shaped by history, technology, personality, and all the messy human stuff underneath. That background sneaks in here—not in the form of jargon or academic posturing (I hope), but as a habit of reading deeply, listening for patterns, themes, and little moments of craft and brilliance. If an album opens a door into the cultural moment that made it, I’m probably walking through it.
This site exists mostly as a record of that kind of listening. Think of it as a running journal of impressions, gear experiments, stray enthusiasms, and the occasional cranky observation. I’m not chasing influence, algorithms, or any official audiophile orthodoxy. I’m just trying to document what it’s like to sit in a room with good equipment, spin something that matters, and pay attention. If those notes resonate with others wandering the same musical landscape—fellow listeners, collectors, GenX refugees, hi-fi obsessives—then all the better.
So welcome. Turn the volume up a notch, let the room fill, and come listen with me.
Note
- In addition, it serves as a proof-of-concept that I can design, build, and use a nice web site from scratch. I use Hugo to build and test, a VPS to host, and Cloudflare to handle DNS. I’ve recently come to appreciate that I enjoy building things—that the medium, if it’s not the entire message—is certainly integral to the message. I like the process, like meta-composition.
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