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.
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.