The SME10 is a great table, have had a few of them through here over the years. Agree with above regarding arm, the better the arm the better it will sound.
Din to XLR is easy, there are several options on ebay, balanced phono is the way to go. If you need to the SME cable is easily re-terminated with XLR's, any tech should be able to do this for you - if not send it to me and I can do it for you.
I second the Lyra cartridges for the SME, Ortofon is worth looking into also
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