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Kalman Rubinson reviews the MSB Platinum Link Plus D/A processor, revealing, "I have a warm spot in my heart for MSB's approach to product development." With this latest product, will Rubinson's heart continue to glow?

Next, Art Dudley creates more controversy with his appraisal of the 47 Laboratory 4715 D/A processor & 4716 CD transport. Dudley says, "It seems to me that the two-box Shigaraki combo from Japan's 47 Laboratory is aimed more at that old-style hobbyist—the individualist, if you will—than the average audiophile."

Records to Die From? In "Listening #3," AD confronts the atrocious state of audiophile demo music with a few suggestions of discs that he reports sound good and are good.

In his "The Fifth Element 16," John Marks finds good things to say about the Symposium Acoustics Ultra isolation platform, Marantz SA-14 SACD player, and Grace Design Model 901 headphone amplifier.

Finally, the next installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: Recording of September 1995: Reger: Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin, Vol.2. Richard Lehnert notes, "These challenging, satisfying works have languished, seldom performed and almost never recorded, for the better part of the 20th century."