My new VP150 is not crackly, but it is very detailed and I hear every stop-plosive and harsch consonant the sound engineer wants me to. I like this level of accuracy.

If you have The Fellowship of the Ring, watch the first five minutes. The dialog spoken by whoever the female character is is very clear and precise. Also, there isn't a whole lot of loud sound effects during this sequence which make it easy to judge if the VP150 is doing its job.

Greg