Did I do a good thing or not?

Give it a week or at least several hours of listening before you make a judgement. All new audio gear is a rose at first and then after long hours of listening, sometimes the bloom is lost.

Which arm do you wear your Rolex on?

Of all the MM cartridges I have, I love the SHURE V-15 VMR the best. Before becoming mostly a MC man, I got a JICO SAS stylus for it. Not sure if you can still get them, but the last time I looked they had become stupid expensive. I think JICO has some other MR upgrades available. The SAS was definitely an eye opener and I stuck with that as my number one for many years.I never heard the V-15 IV, but read that it was a little bit of a step down from the III, so I think your going to love the V-15 VMR.

Disclaimer: the first good cartridge I evet had was a V-15 III MANY years ago, so my ears may have been preconditioned.

All the best, Jim

Hell to all. Finished up the installation of the Shure V-15 Type 5 MR last night, first record was a wowser, the second even more so (Eric Burden's "Til Your River Runs Dry"). Great album, and sounded spectacular. I just sat with my mouth hanging open, in pure joy.

I've never expreienced that kind of feeling before in all the years of my much DIY system, it sounded like a million-dollar system with the new cartridge.

To say I am happy would be the understatement of the year, and Dover, you were so right about the Dynavector 501 arm would be a good match for the V-15 Type 5, another monumental understatement.

Thanks to all who care, and even to those that don't! (I love everybody this morning!

Regards,

Dan

@islandmandan 

That's great to hear. FYI the Dynavector Cartridges prevalent at the time of the 501/507 series launch were medium compliance.

You can get more performance  from your 501 by fine tuning the position of the rear counterweight.

If you take off the anti-skate, lift the cartridge ( or remove platter ) try blowing on the arm. When the rear counterweight is at its optimum you should be able to move the arm back and forth by gently blowing on its side. When you see this you start to understand the rationale behind the arms split inertia design. Effectively when properly set up the arm floats in the horizontal domain.