Leben RS-30EQ phono stage

Notec, there's not a stepup made by Leben yet. The Auditorium is made to be used primarily with Shindo, although it does pair nicely with Leben. Hopefully a Leben will be available sometime.

I had it for a little while in my system. I compared it to my ASR Mini Basis, plugging into my ASR Emitter II Exclusive.
ASR is a bit darker, warmer, richer sounding. Leben has very nice clarity, sweet but a bit thin sounding. However my Leben dealer did warn me right from the beginning that looking at impedance input of ASR and impedance output of Leben, he did not think it was a good match.
However my biggest complain is that with Leben, it was working as a tuner as well. My ASR did pick up any stray radio frequency at all. Where I live, there are so many radio stations to fill all the available frequency for FM so if you live in a major city with lots of radio stations, Leben may not be so great. I tried Leben with Ortofon SPU-T100/Dyna XV-1s. ASR was also used with Ortofon SPU.

Opps, I meant to say my ASR mini Basis did not pick up any stray radio frequency at all. Leben did regularly.

Hmm, when we got to demo the Leben it was as quiet as a lamb, and we're prono to rf as well....

has anyone used this particular phono pre-amp with just an mm cart ?
Did it have enough gain ?
The published gain for this phono pre is just 21.5 db of gain.
That is kinda lowish.
Which mm carts did you try this unit with ?