Kevin, I think I would agree with you regarding the PD-150, based on my experience with a VX-2000. However, on the PDX-10 I really prefer the sharpness set all the way to the minimum. There's a lot of discussion on this in a couple other threads as well. But of course the main conclusion that one can draw from reading all these is that we all have somewhat different tastes, and that's a good thing. In fact, it's why Sony gives us the custom presets in the first place!