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Complete rewiring of SME IV - opinions

I have a 12 year old SME IV mounted on a gyro deck playing with a vDh frog super. I am investigating the possibility of a complete rewiring from cartridge to phono via smetonearms.com in Canada. They use Cardas cable for this job as a continuous run which sounds attractive proposition.
Are there fellow vinyl lovers that have done this? What is your opinion? Should I expect a substantial improvement or not. The other option is to go for a simple change to the phono cable leaving the internal wiring intact. Please advice

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williewonka
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I had the Cardas Upgrade completed to my RB250 and it improved things significantly over the standard Rega offering.

I now have an Audiomods Arm, which I believe uses the same Cardas one piece loom also.

The one other upgrade I have made to the loom is the addition of the KLE Innovations Absolute Harmony RCA plugs. You can also try either the Silver Harmony or Pure Harmony - when used for this purpose they will outperform most (if not all) high end RCA’s.

Audiomods review - http://www.image99.net/blog/files/category-audiomods-tonearm.html
Pure Harmony - http://www.image99.net/blog/files/1621fffaa60c22b5f8210f57d628f961-58.html
Absolute Harmony - http://www.image99.net/blog/files/a8494e8645dea3d750d109f819103099-61.html

Combined with the one piece loom, the Absolute Harmony RCA’s have elevated the performance to a whole new level, providing significantly more details that really contribute to a more lifelike reproduction of live venue acoustics.

Final upgrade - the Soundsmith version of the Denon DL103 - a massive improvement in details , which  the Cardas Loom conveyed effortlessly  - I have now stopped looking for upgrades - it’s just a superb combination !

Happy to just - listen to the music :-)
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