Best place to live for good quality power

For those of you who have traveled around the world with your hi-fi, what have you learned about where to live for the best power?

- Dense city but right near a substation

- Or far from a substation is ok, as long as few houses on the grid (rural)?

Etc

Some of you are into batteries, but lets talk about how location affects power.

thanks in advance

clustrocasual07-20-2023 12:53am

itsjustme Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 681 posts 07-21-2023 at 01:09pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete first define quality. The vast majority of issues we ensure are noise related. Noise comes nto from the service provider but from equipment operating on the grid, often right in your neighborhood. I'm talking to you air conditioner, or the millions of capacitor input power supplies not-so-gently clippng the opts off waves and delivering back emf into the power network. So its us. And its a question of time - what hour? What day? what season? Get a good filter. And honestly, not all equipment does an equally good job of rejecting noise.
itsjustme Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 681 posts 07-21-2023 at 05:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete First don't obsess. Second, I thought I was clear the problem is not the source. For a bunch of technical reasons I won't get into there is really no such thing as a poor source. Just pollution between the source and you. Therefore the answer is a filter. When I say filter it could be a passive filter or is one person suggested a regenerator — which is an awesome filter but carries with it lots of other problems like high source impedance.