Lack of sharpness in previews - Lightroom 2

I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this forum can help me sort through this issue that is causing me a lot of problems.
I am shooting NEFs. When I view my images in Lightroom 2 after import, there is a noticeable lack of sharpness to the images. Everything just looks slightly soft, even at a 1:1 preview. I am using the default detail setting of 25 for sharpness.
When I view these same images in another application like Photo Mechanic, the images are much sharper. I'm thinking that maybe this is due to PM using the embedded jpg while Lightroom does not. I'm not sure.
I am looking for suggestions on what settings people are using for optimal sharpness in Lightroom. I really like LR but right now I am finding hard to accurately evaluate my work.
Thanks,
Les

>I wish the developers could give us a switch to defeat this. PS displays, or at least hints at, sharpening when zoomed out.
They are quite set against it so I doubt it. Photoshop is really lying to you in many different ways when you judge sharpness at zoomed out levels. Of course, the only reason you see it in Photoshop is that it is a pixel editor. If you have rendered 1:1 previews, in Lightroom, you always see the effect of sharpening in the Library module when zoomed out as it is rendered from the preview image. In fact what you see there is the same when in Photoshop at power of two zoom levels (25%, 50%, etc.). So it is there, they just don't show it in Develop when you are zoomed out, where it would not tell you anything anyway.

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