"Unless you are listening for it, you don't hear it. The train does not particularly stand out, which is different from what people have been led to expect."
The 3D effect is achieved by using microphones with multiple sensors that record sound levels, punctuations in those sounds, and then movement.
As well as sending sound booths on a roadshow that lasts until June, Arup has made its recordings available in a studio in central London, where the soundtracks will be matched to video representations of the route.
The recording in Great Missenden simulates the high speed line 1 km away, over a busy section of the A413, and the trains are inaudible.
In the Northolt recording, which replicates the experience of standing 75 metres from the line, the high speed services are less noisy than services on the adjacent Chiltern rail line.
Hammond said his own experience of transport blight had not disrupted his domestic home 750 metres from a busy bypass outside Woking. "My experience of living quite close to a busy road for 13 years is, you get pretty immune to it."
However, opposition to the line remains fierce in the countryside sections of the 140-mile route. Julian Smyth-Osbourne, spokesman for HS2 Action Alliance, said: "How loud or quiet the high-speed train may be is an issue for the poor people who live and work near the line.
"What is becoming increasingly clear is that HS2 will be a white elephant costing billions that will be a millstone round all of our necks for generations to come and that is an issue for every single one of us."
A consultation on the London-to-Birmingham route closes at the end of July with the view to starting construction in about five years and completing it by 2026.
The government is also drawing up plans for a second phase that will link Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds via two separate lines.