Anyone have experience with Soundsmith’s strain gauge?


After watching Peter Ledermann’s excellent presentation on phono cartridge design I am now quite interested in his Strain gauge cartridge. Unfortunately reviews for the product seem to be sparse and are from nearly a decade ago. I’m wondering if anyone here is an owner of such a system and if they’d be so kind as to share their experience with it. I currently have the Aida cartridge from their high output MI lineup and I want to know if the sound really is a big step up from what I currently have. 
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NYC DJ Paul Cavalconte left a testimonial on Soundsmith website regarding Strain Gauge and there he mentioned he has been using the strain gauge mainly to needle drop his radio shows' The Vinyl Experience & Vinyl Jazz, for years now (I reached out to him on facebook ask about the SG a couple years ago, he confirmed he was still using it at that time)
http://paulcavalconte.com/around-the-dial/
The internet radio are part of IHeartRadio, audio is pretty compressed/lossy sounding unfortunately