I have a P3-24 with the same cartridge... Thiel 2.4s and a Pass Labs INT-30A, and have tried three different phonos. One was the Phono board in my Classe-CAP151 integrated (used just as a pre-amp), the second was the PS audio GCPH, and the third (now owned) is the Jasmine LP2.0 Mk II. The PS audio was the worst, it presented no images, pretty much just throwing instruments into the two channels. I guess instrument clarity and tone was pretty good, just a terrible, terrible soundstage. The Classe was second best, it presented a real recessed image (the worst exemplar, Stevie Wonder's Music of My Mind, sounded like a floating ball of sound that was about 2 square yards right in the center between my speakers) but presented a lot of information about depth of instruments within the soundstage. The Jasmine sounded much better than either out of the box (I'm just about 30 hours in)... nice detailed images that stretch across the soundstage. The soundstage is the same size as that produced by my PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC, and the analog end of my system actually made Simon's Graceland sound better than the digital version. That wasn't as true with some other recordings (there was added detail in the digital version of Stevie Wonder's Song's in the Key of Life, for instance). In any case, at the ~$500 price range I feel like Jasmine is a winner. I have the expectation that it will allow me to hear any future upgrades in the analog signal path. I certainly know whenever a significant dust hair is dragging along the dynavector.
