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Crisp and Crunch do not necessarily mean hard. In fact, there needs to be something soft under the hard outer ply for a hard blade to really feel crisp. ALC blades, the Arylate is actually soft and lets the top ply deform which is what gives it that feeling of snap. Limba on certain blades can feel very Crisp and give you this giant Crunch feeling on impact depending on the blade construction.....and.....as said above.....depending on the rubbers used on the blade.
Some of how you get a Crisp feeling from the blade is how the top ply interacts with the ply underneath it. So, with an Koto/ALC blade, the top ply is hard and thin, and the Arylate in the weave is soft and allows the top ply towards the core and then rebound. For a Clipper, the Limba ply is pretty thin and the Ayous ply under it is springy. I have felt a Primorac Carbon and the one I tried did feel pretty crisp to me as well. So, the soft Hinoki ply on top of that Tamca 5000 Carbon layer may cause the to plies to interact in a way that causes that. But it is worth trusting someone who has that blade, like Lazer, if he says it feels crisp.
Well you have a point regarding how soft and hard layers combine. I have 2 Primorac Carbons and a Schlager Light, and with 2 softer rubbers (as I liked to use them) it feels crisp, but if you put on a hard rubber I wouldn't call it crisp, the whole feeling becomes more "vague".
A Viscaria is always crisp, even with a H3.
Funnily enough 2 days ago, out of totally different reasons I took out my black tag Primo Carbon and glued a Rozena and my Tibhar K2, one is soft the other is a hard rubber and the K2 was really rubbish with it while the Rozena on BH felt great.