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I hit with the max-thickness version on an Innerforce Layer blade. Weight was 46.6g.
Overall it's a rank above DNA Pro in performance.
The topsheet is on the softer side, but the way it flies is just right.
With DNA Pro I was worried about brushing the ball with the sheet, but here that wasn't an issue. There's a good amount of spin, though not as much as Tenergy.
I felt it's an all-around rubber that handles anything well, whether you're spinning the ball or hitting it flat.
Testing it with just a single shot, I thought it might be a rubber without much character, but in an all-around drill format, it's easy to return pretty much any kind of ball. When you return something in a hurry, you can send back a ball that's hard for the opponent to smash. It gives you the ball you're picturing in your head, so I felt this is a rubber I'd recommend to people who make a lot of mistakes and want more consistency.

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Used on the backhand side of a shakehand blade.
It feels softer than other rubbers of the same hardness rating (47.5°).
When smashing or driving, you do feel some energy loss, but the technique itself is easy to execute.
The short game is easy too, and thanks to a good topsheet, loop drives spin well despite the softness.
For blocks and counters, if you try to hold the ball down by brushing from above, it sinks in on its own and overshoots, so it felt better suited to letting the ball sink in and holding it, or hitting back through it.
I wasn't originally a fan of soft rubbers, but setting aside personal preference about the soft feel on the ball, it's easy to handle overall, and it's the kind of rubber that makes me want to keep using it on my backhand for a while.

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I used the max thickness. Before cutting it was 67.8g, and after cutting to fit, about 47.8g.

The build has a thin sheet like the Rasanter series, but since the pips themselves are thicker, it feels more spin-oriented than the Rasanter.
The sheet itself is on the soft side, so it's easy to put spin on. That said, the ceiling doesn't seem all that high.

The bounce is fairly strong, and the trajectory is a low, flat one.
It has an "automatic" feel that's unusual for a German-made rubber, so I think it's easy to recommend even to people who normally use Japanese rubbers.
My one concern is that the ball doesn't travel quite as far as I expected. Bumping up the hardness might solve that.

The M is fine either way — a "just right" kind of rubber — so I do think the real choice is the H or the XH.

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First off, the sheet isn't too hard or too soft, so the ball sinks into the rubber nicely, which makes flat hitting easy, and drives arc high and land deep on your opponent's side. It feels a lot like hitting with Tenergy 05. That said, if you're brushing the ball for your drive, I feel like the 05 puts a bit more spin on it. The Platinum M is better suited to drives where you hit the ball solidly and let it sink in. The ball doesn't drop either, so I think it's a fantastic rubber. It's fine in the short game too, and it's easy to use on both forehand and backhand. Rubbers in the DNA series generally tend to be quite stable. The price is a bit high so it makes you hesitate, but I think once you actually hit with it you'll really feel the performance.

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Forehand chopping feels similar to the G1. Handling the opponent's loop drives is easy too, no complaints there. On topspin, the amount of spin on the loop is tremendous. When it's hard to build a point off your serve, going from your own loop drive into a chop off the ball your opponent blocks back is a really strong pattern I'd recommend. Getting one-shot-level speed on a fast drive is difficult, but it holds up really well in rally exchanges. The short game is easy too, and overall it's excellent for stability. If you want one-shot power, I'd recommend the Platinum XH instead, though the chopping stability drops a bit. It really produces some absurdly violent shots.

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To accommodate a 2.3mm (max) sponge thickness, the topsheet is thin. Because of this, when comparing max-thickness versions, it's 4-5g lighter than DNA Pro. On its own it comes out to around 45g. I think this is a rare rubber that lets you fine-tune weight while still getting high performance.

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