Tone arm cable for SME V


I'm looking to replace the existing VDH cable that came with my SME V. I require a right-angle DIN to RCA cable. I know Cardas and Audioquest make them. Are there others out there worth looking at given my cable configuration requirement?
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Maybe I'm too late but I highly recommend Howland Groove 2,which replaced my VDH mc.
Importend is the burn in period. For the new cable I let build an adapter (DIN to RCA) and used the cabel on an old CD player and let it run a month long 24 hours a day with a Burmeister CD. The improovment on sound quality is unbelivebel.The burn in period on SME arm takes too long due the very low mAmps...
Hi Nsgarch,
An elektrician has make the adapter for me. A simple male DIN on one end and 2 RCA (also male) ontheother.You plug the RCA to your cd player out, DIN to phono cable and phono RCA' s to your (pre)amplifier and let cd player run. You can use also the CARDAS DIN plug, which Rouvin mentions.
For the burn(or break) in period:
1.)You have the plug the cable into an amp but dont have to let amp run all the time. Just listen first, to make shure the connections are right and shut off the amp then.
2.)I prefer to use real music cd's for "break in". I choose sampler cd's (like Burmeister or JM Lab) with all kind of music on it,like classic(small and big orchester), organ(importend),jazz, pop, rock. Of course you can use "burn in" tracks of some dedicated CD's, but I prefer music.
3.)I dont prefer using a tuner for break in, becouse their top ends are around 15 kHz. CD's have more on buttom and top (but not so much as an analog :-)).