Experience with Sensitive Sound MC cartridges

Everywhere I hop, I see more evidence of their being a serious cartridge company, with other services, rebuilding SME arms, rebuilding stylus, dealers in a few countries with good reputations ...

Darn good price for what they say it is.

I found a Russian Tonearm, no USA dealers, everyone told me "No, don’t do it". After a few months, I had to have it, took a risk, glad I did.

http://newartvinyl.ru/board/detali_proigryvatelja/tonarm_black_bird12_5_carbon/7-1-0-41

You could write NewArt and ask them about using that cartridge in their arm. They are very responsive, their feedback will be a good indicator of how they think of Sensitive Sound.

The channel separation and channel balance specs, if true, should produce superior imaging.

See the somewhat low compliance comments in that review, does it fit your arm?

I would discus your current MC setup with Solypsa re: compatibility, signal strength/impedance, also ask them about compliance with your tonearm.

I see the dollar is strong in Russia now, that helps explain lower costs here, I paid more USD for my tonearm 1 year ago.

I reviewed the web site. It always bothers me when a company designs it's products to look "cool." The specs on the cartridges are good. 
@chakster if you are out there it looks to me like they are using the Japanese compliance rating. You Think? They are using Japanese Styli. Wonder if the cartridges are also built in Japan.
I am not in a hurry to buy one. I would rather see what the reviews look like first and let others be guinea pigs.

That tone arm is designed after Schroder arms. It looks like a CB with more primitive bearings and anti skating. It is not a neutral balance arm and the vertical bearing is far above the record surface. Non of this means it is a bad sounding arm as long as your records are flat. If a Schroder CB costs $5000. This is worth I would say $3000 at most.
What did you pay for it? 

@elliottbnewcombjr I did write to Solypsa already. I gave Erik my system particulars and he did not mention any incompatibility in his reply. I plan to mount the Sensitive Sound cartridge on a Jelco TK-950S which is I think a potential good match. I read somewhere that Mr Roman Lebedev, the cartridge designer has a particular affinity for the SME 3012, which he uses to test his cartridges I assume, and the Jelco 950 has the same topology. One thing I like with Sensitive Sound is that all its styli are of a fine profile, namely the Shibata III, Ogura Micro Line, and Micro Ridge. No use of aluminum cantilever either. That means even if I get the entry-level Splash, I could expect a good performance. I haven't decided which to get (probably I'll get the ART Dark), and I was just wondering if anyone has heard any of these cartridges. I'm using an HW-19 MKIII TT and a c-j EF-1 phono stage. 

You are making assumptions and they are the mother of all F--k ups.
You never want to be the first on your block especially with a small and young company. You have no idea what their quality control is like until you have seen a few of them first hand. Anybody can buy pre mounted styli on boron cantilevers. It is how they are installed in the cartridge that counts and that is a very fastidious process requiring very steady hands
and a good microscope. I have seen too many cottage cartridges with crooked and twisted cantilevers. 
I am not saying these are bad cartridges, I am just saying, "Be careful!"