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My #@%$ Cat Destroyed My ARC REF 5SE. Soliciting Suggestions.

(Public service announcement-keep your pets away from your audio equipment)

I love my cat. But not as much as I once did :-)
The short story is cat pee corroded the main board to my ARC REF 5SE. 

Homeowners insurance doesn't cover repair or replacement because owning a pet means you assume liability/responsibility. Ironically, or strangely enough, If my neighbor's cat or dog did this, I could collect.

My options-
Repair it. Fixing it will cost 7K. The main board alone is 6K.
Buy a pre-owned replacement at close to similar price. And if I go pre-owned, what's the market on a REF 5SE with a destroyed main board.
Go in a different direction.

What would you do?

TIA,
David
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phd
1,314 posts
 
There is nothing worse then cat pee for smell and the damage it can cause. I much prefer dog pee if I had to choose between the two. I can imagine how devastated you were when you discovered this problem. There is a silver lining in every dark cloud. This could be a chance to sell  the reference at a loss and buy something else, you might actually wind up with a better sound yet. Then maybe you will you won't be so sore at the cat.
goldenears19 may have a good point with atma-Sphere being a step up and worth looking in to.
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jtgofish
515 posts
 
Another reason why you should avoid tube amps/preamps which use printed circuit boards.You get all sorts of problems.Hard wired is how they should be.
jetter
3,033 posts
 
I may have missed it, what was the resolution, fix the preamp, buy a used one, other?
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brewmasterdon
68 posts
 

That age old question?

so many cats, so few recipes!!


Don

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