I completely agree and have not found any tuner that doesn't require a slight final adjustment to each pair by ear. It absolutely drives me crazy when I see someone tune both strings to their tuner and leave it there - each pair of strings not in perfect tune with each other, each pair in a different manner.
I really like the Stroboclip and am mostly content when using a Snark - but as I have a piezo in my mandolin I vastly prefer using a pedal tuner. Faster, more accurate, requires less time pair-matching, and in contexts where pair-matching by ear is impossible my strobe pedal tuner [turbo tuner st200] gets me results I am content with, even amplified.
I wasn't so picky about pair matching until I listened to a recording of my band where I didn't do a good job of it. Now that I'm plugging in more often, it cuts through in a bad way up the neck if they're not matched well. Maybe I'm more picky than most about this, but when they're nicely paired my instrument just sings with such great tone.
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