Did I do a good thing or not?

Please let us know how this turns out. I’m looking forward to it.

Thank you!

I hope you like it!

The Shure V-15 has one of the best tracking available; it may be vintage but it is a legendary device. Whether you like the Shore sound or not is another matter

Hey, at least it wasn't a flavor-of-the-month $3500 MC made from mandrake root.

With its coil inductance of around 400 microhenries it won't have the speed and snap on transients of lomc cartridges. I have one NIB and a spare Jico stylus. Arm choice is important! A Grace 707 with its straight lightweight arm tube would work well with the V15's high compliance - I have two! A Denon 309 arm would also be a good choice. 

Back in my early audiophile years I tried an M91E, a Stanton 681A, and an Empire something in my Dual 1209, because they were $5.00 each at Korvette, and I was curious. I greatly preferred the Stanton. Later I enjoyed a B&O SP12, an ADC XLM and Sonus Blue Label before my first MC,  a Denon DL103S. I never went back to Shure until I tried an M95HE a decade or two ago…again, dull and lifeless to my ears. More recently, a V15 IV came my way, and I got Jico SAS stylus for it, to go on a Well Tempered TTTA. Finally, a Shure I could enjoy! I hope you do too. I now am using an AT OC9 XML with even more pleasure, and a newer phono preamp (Pro-Ject PhonoBox DS3), which gives me lots of loading and gain options I never had before.