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Mixing high-quality full-spectrum audio with low-quality and small-spectrum voice always sound neat :)

The measured and calm voice of ATC and pilots probably just makes it better, it always sound like they have everything 100% under control.

“Contact” on the Random Access Memories album does this well. [1]

That entire song makes me picture a white knuckling unscheduled re-entry followed by nail biting waiting, concluded by a successful splash down.

It's relaxing until they start speaking paragraphs very fast, over and over, then it feels stressful ):

The HN submission page could play something like this in the background to soothe people while they are preparing their angry submissions.

Heh, who am I kidding, HN runs on outrage just like all the other social networks.

Now I'm imagining a writing/journaling app that automatically chooses a playlist based on the emotions or concepts detected in the writing.