Experience with Sensitive Sound MC cartridges

chakster Just to clarify a point from your post: The meteorite material referenced is not stone, it is metal, and used in the generator not the body. Its easy to research these metals. Also basically all high end cartridges are made by an ’enthusiast’ so that is a dubious point of contention. Even the big Japanese names are each built by one, or maybe a few artisans...

@solypsa The difference between Japanese or European cartridge designers and unknown Russian dude is reputation.

“Meteorit” in Russian language is a piece of other planet coming from the space. It’s a stone.

The meaning is the same in Wikipedia:

“A METEORITE is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate energy. It then becomes a meteor and forms a fireball, also known as a shooting star or falling star; astronomers call the brightest examples "bolides".

@chakster
True, reputation building takes time. I agree with you on this point!
Regarding meteorite...Wiki 'iron meteorite'. Then you will see the general class we are talking about. From within this general class comes the material Roman has come to prefer. Nothing outrageous here...

For decades Soviet Hi-Fi was nothing but a very bad copy of well know Japanese and European Hi-Fi. We had a poorly made Soviet copy of Thorens, a copy of Technics and so on. We had simplified copy of well know speakers, radios, turntables, reel to reel ... everything.

Looking at SensitiveSound cartridges I see a little bit of Benz and Dynavector ... I see Linn in some other cartridges from SensiviteSound. In in terms of design they can't make their own without copying someone else. 

What is the reason to buy unknown Russian SensitiveSound when original Japanese and European cartridges with very strong reputation available from giants of the industry with 100 years of history or from an internationally renowned small manufacturers ?

Reviews? I’d like to ask @audite84 about his system and his cartridges first. Do you have some other cartridges ? Jelco TK-950S is your tonearm ?

@chakster The reason I want to try is that I would never know if I didn't. It's part of our hobby. With all due respect, not to try a new company because there are well-known companies around does not make much sense. Imagine if people never tried Benz Micro carts when Ernest Benz first introduced them at a time when vinyl was on a decline. Why did people bother buying Hana when they came out when there's Audio-Technica? What would happen to small outfits like Soundsmith? 

In reality, I dare say, every cartridge is a "copy" of the other. Cartridge technology is pretty much set. Designers simply tune their products by choice of materials and design tweaks or little innovations. Good products could come out of Russia, I think it's fair to say, just as there are good products out of China. 

To answer your question at the end of your last post, I'm planning to mount the Sensitive Sound cartridge on a Jelco TK-950S tonearm on a VPI HW-19 with ADS power supply. Rest of the system (not including digital components): c-j EF-1 phono stage, c-j PF-R or PV-10AL preamp (I switch between the two), c-j MF-2100 power amp, KEF Model 105 (restored, not modified). Cables by Morrow Audio. (I also have other systems by the way.)

Aside from the VPI, I also have the Technics SL-150MK2 with SME Series III tonearm and the STD 305 turntable with SME 3009 S2 Improved. Yes, I have other cartridges at present: Shure V15 Type IV with original MR stylus, V15 Type III with JICO SAS/B, Technics EPC-205C MK3, Stanton 681EEE with JICO Shibata, Ortofon MC-1 Turbo (the least among the group), Hana SL, Benz Micro MC-1 and Wood SM. I use the TK-950S for the Hana and the Benz carts. 

I have a bias so won’t comment much more, however:
@chakster don’t dig it? Cool. But it’s a bit rash to make negative assertions on a product you have NEVER seen. What you see from pictures is (for the large frame carts) a magnet array and a field stabilization element. Yep others do it to. And?