Purchased a used Shure V15 Type IV cartridge, looking for stylus

I went for the Jico SAS with Boron cantilever for my Shure V15 Type 3. Sounds great to my ears. Tracks like a dream. I am using a vintage Pioneer 707 table and am getting excellent vintage results. It sounds just like I remember the hi end systems sounding in the 70s.

I am using the Jico Boron SAS stylus on a Shure V15 IV, and find it a very satisfying replacement. Measuring the response with pink noise and the REW RTA, I am able to get a very flat response. Tracking is good, although not quite as good as with the original stylus.

With all respect to Elliot, who is a knowledgeable Audiogon contributor, I'm not a fan of using a brush mounted on any cartridge, for the following reasons:

1. it screws up the geometry of the cartridge and makes azimuth adjustment almost impossible. This wasn't a major factor when the V15 series was first introduced, but it is now.

2. Some turntables, mostly belt drives with "low-noise" (aka low powered) motors will not spin at the precisely correct speed with the brush attached.

3. Unless the brush is cleaned often, your you will hear more noise as dirt get accumulated into the grooves. It's a resolvable issue but it's also a PITA.

4. In dry/low humidity conditions, brushes can build up a considerable amount of static on the record surface, also contributing to noisy play.

Best to skip the brush, IMO.

br3098, On balance, I wouldn't use the brush either.  But if your motor is THAT weak that the brush slows down the platter, then we are in trouble.  Most weak motor BD TTs are designed with massive platters; the designer wants the inertia of the platter per se to be the major factor in holding constant speed.  I would have thought that properly designed BD TTs with motors that are intentionally weak would not be affected at all by the brush. Have you had the opposite experience? On all other points, I agree, except as regards the importance of azimuth in the good old days.  I guess you are suggesting that elliptical styli are less fussy about azimuth. The other factor is that most of us never thought much about azimuth in those good old days, because we couldn't adjust for it even if we had.

My Technics SL 1200G is a direct drive so there will never be a problem of the brush slowing the turntable speed.  I have decided that I will listen to the cartridge when I receive it first.  It presently has a NOS VN4G stylus which is a cheap alt.  Once I have verified the cartridge actually works, I will then purchase the Jico SAS with the Boron cantilever.  
 

I was leaning towards that stylus before I made the original post, but you guys sealed the deal for me, thanks all so very much.