Costliest Brainfart

Hello, Please do not put a claim on your home owner’s insurance for $2k. You will just give them an excuse to raise your rate prematurely. Not sure of the condition of the platter and plinth. If those are salvageable you can go back to the dealer and see what they can do for the arm and cartridge. Sometimes they have a trade in deal or maybe they will be really nice and give you a really good discount. Like $30%. As for the arm if you have to use that arm then get another. If you can choose an arm then get something you might really want like a Kuzma 4 point 11. I am really sorry this happened to you and I am sure one way or another we have all had our bad audio days. 

I thought my turntable arm was up. I was cleaning a record and pushed it counterclockwise. There went my sumiko evo 3

Oh yeah…dropped speakers…lowered tone arm/stylus  on the part of the platter that has the speed calibration notches…turned volume up…up…up still no sound? Oh yeah, I hooked up to speaker B this time, turned speaker selector knob without lowering volume- BOOM. 
Done worse (imo). Parked car with a new Pioneer super tuner in shady part of Brooklyn. Sure nuff it was gone when I returned 15 minutes later. Damn these guys are good, clean uninstall with out breaking anything on the dash. Next day had to visit same neighborhood and couldn’t do without tunes so Used another family car. Parked in same spot. Same result.

I could go on but the audiogon community’s impression of me May drop too much.

My house cleaner decided to clean my phono cartridge. She rippled the stylus and cantilever out of the $3500 cartridge. I asked her if she would avoid touching it in the future. No point in yelling at her or upsetting her. Stuff  happens.

I entered in my acoustic journey the day 23 years ago when my wife decided to clean the Beyerdynamic T990 i used from 1980 till 2000... My wife used his aspirator with a sudden inspiration toward cleanliness seeing my headphone... It suck up one of the driver...I did not divorced... 😁

My acoustic journey begun when i decided to try new speakers for my desk ( My tannoy were too big) and new headphones one after the other with no SATISFACTION ...

When i stumble on a decent not too big speakers , frustrated by my 9 headphones purchase, i begun to experiment with room acoustic... It takes me 5 years to succeed ...

I enjoyed my dedicated room for almost 2 years...

But i lost it selling my big house one year ago...

In the new small house happily i optimized the only headphones i was really in love with and some small box speakers...

AKG K340 and M-audio AV 40 speakers in a dedicated acoustic corner ...

I am happy again and heaven...Thanks to the Dr. Gorike who designed the K340 hybrid and to the chinese engineer behind this M-Audio active speakers marvel model AV40  at peanuts cost...