Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

My God, talk about a horrible week! First $600 in speeding tickets between my wife and I. Then, the panel on my 60" plasma goes bad, out of warranty. Then somebody slams into me and I drop my smart phone and break the screen($200). Finally, I find out we owe $1,000 in uncovered doctor bills.

What happened next.....I don't know how to begin.

I decided to go down to the basement and listen to some music after a bad week. I put on my brand new copy of Diana Krall One Night in Paris 180G 45 RPM LP.

I'm sitting there enjoying the music, eyes closed when I hear the horrible screech of a needle sliding across the turntable come from my Energy RC-10's.

I jump up turn the volume down and try to figure out what happened. I look on the floor and lying below my turntable is a handheld electric butane lighter. My wife had lit some candles on the patio earlier and put the lighter on the shelf above the stereo leaning at a 45 degree angle. Not sure if was the vibration from the music or if it was going to come down anyway but it fell and landed on/near my turntable. The needle was knocked back to the start of the album.

I turned the amp back up to about half the volume it had been at and hear some distortion. From what I can tell so far, the tweeter in the left RC-10 sounds damaged. I have not been able to figure out yet what else may be wrong.