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High-Speed Train is the soundscape from inside a high-speed electric train of the TGV, Shinkansen or Sapsan type: an even, very dense motion hum at 250 to 320 km/h without the classic clack-clack (continuous welded rail deliberately suppresses joint noise), a muffled high-frequency component from airflow along the carriage, barely audible hissing whistles at switches and in tunnels. Inside the carriage level is about 60 to 68 dB, close to ordinary conversational background.
Technologically, continuous welded rail, developed in the 1930s and adopted en masse on high-speed lines from the 1960s, removes the classic rhythmic noise and replaces it with a broadband whistling hum spectrally very close to pink noise. This produces a paradoxical effect: on a high-speed train travellers fall asleep less often than on a conventional one, because the lulling rhythm is absent. By contrast a high-speed train is much better for work and reading; Yoon and colleagues (Applied Ergonomics, 2014) showed that the cognitive performance of TGV and Shinkansen passengers is on average higher than on conventional trains.
Use this track for long focus work (especially for people who like to write on the road), for tech and travel podcasts, for futuristic prose, for movement meditation, or for people with mild loneliness (the phantom I'm-in-transit soothes). Pairs with Highway, Pink Noise and Air Conditioner. Suitable for sleep, but less so than a regular train, since the rhythm is absent.
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Ambient sound mixer for relaxation and focus