Best place to live for good quality power

@itsjustme

+1. You can do something about noisy power. It is also relatively cheap and simple to improve compared to others.

How quiet your listening room is really important. If you can drop your listening room to the 20 - 30db range you give your system an enormous advantage.

Of course, you can do something about noise pollution… Moving to the country can greatly reduce this. Or spend a lot of money insulting you room and or house. But that will not reduce physical vibration which improves sound quality from components… from cars and trucks rolling by, airplanes and other urban stuff.

Then there is room geometry and acoustics. Huge impact.

There are so many variables to control. Powers just one.

A long time ago Stan Warren told me the best power he's experienced comes from living near a dam used for hydroelectric power. As long as there's water...

All the best,
Nonoise

I wonder how the use of smart meters impacts our power source. Unlike the old analog meters, new smart meters may not provide any surge protection and send out radio signals to the provider to measure usage multiple times per day. The radio signals may also travel through your entire electrical system. Some people have reported health issues related to the use of smart meters. I don’t know how clean my power is but I have two sub panels between my audio system and the main panel/meter.

This has little to do with what town or city you live in.

Living in a congested apartment complex in any town or city is pretty much a dead end. But, a stand-alone house with 2 dedicated lines installed (one for digital components and the other for analog components) is a pretty good start. Ditch the trash romex and spend a li’l more on the wire for those 2 dedicated lines before the electrician comes over. After that, the right type of conditioners (Audioquest Niagara and a couple of others come to mind) will do the trick.

deep_333 is spot on. Run at least one dedicated 10 awg line with shielded wire or use metal conduit to shield the wires from point to point. You rarely, if ever, see conduit in home construction. This topic is definitely something to think about if you’re building or remodeling your home. Don’t forget about running network cables.