DIN Phono Cable

Recommend you make sure what sort of 5-pin alignment method is used for the Project arm.

I believe most 5-pin DINs have an alignment pin to facilitate mating orientation.  (My Moerch arm on one table does...).  However, my Origin Live Enterprise MK5 arm uses a larger recess for alignment (not a pin groove) and the Origin Live Silver Hybrid 2 DIN-RCA cable that was included has the mating extrusion ("bumpout").  When I replaced the OL cable with my Luminous Audio Technology Silver Reference, I went ahead and filed down its mating pin to allow insertion, as the Origin Live connection has no pin groove.  May just be an OL thing...

@vinylcat 

That is my main issue, trying to make sure that small pin is the right one (orientation). I have a msg into ProJect asking......Their website nor product page mentions anything about it.

Thanks!

@josepad 

The angle on the DIN cable doesn't have to do with the configuration of the tonearm base. Instead the issue is whether there's enough clearance between the.bottom of he tonearm base and the shelf that the turntable rests on. The DIN connector may be only an inch or two long, but you want to have enough clearance that the cable coming out of the connector doesn't crimp against the shelf as it extends from the tonearm base.

@maxson 

Thanks……I think I know what you mean. The cable will come straight down from the tonearm connection. I don’t see any crimping possibility. 

"The cable will come straight down from the tonearm connection."  But where does the cable have to go next?  Presumably the TT sits on a shelf, so the cable will have to bend at a 90 degree angle in order not to foul the surface of the shelf on its way to the phono inputs.  That is what Maxson is trying to explain, I think. Sometimes a right-angled DIN plug is needed to make that 90 degree turn.