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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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mcmvmx
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Sorry to hear about your ordeal . 5 or 6k is alot of money . Lesson learned I hope . I had a pair of Magnepan 1.6 which one of my cats mistook for a giant scratch board and totally destroyed the tweeter strip on one of the speakers . 

Yesterday while installing a cartridge on my turntable I totally destroyed inadvertantly the cantilevel of the cartridge . Being a MC I'm going to have to buy a new cartridge or send it to Soundsmith for a new assembly . At least 200 dollars down the drain . Lesson learned the hard way .
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