Tom
For what its worth, all the phono stages I am sure are all extremely good. One person's warmth and tone is another's warm blanket over the music and visa versa.
A stereo buddy of mine has all Tom Evans amps including the top of range mastergroove. He has recently bought Dartzeel and prefers the internal phono stage on the Dart to the Master groove. He runs an Atlas like myself - So to answer your original question, the Dart phono is extremely good.
Another guy sold his Shindo Monbrison to go up the Shindo line. He had a listen to the conrad johnson se3se and to quote him, the cj pre /phono blows the Shindo out of the water. He made $ on this transaction.
So best to see what you can listen to in your system.
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