CakeAlexS
Just as well you edited it Vastman, I nearly bought all of the plugins... I'm already living off bread and water after paying a visit to Native Instruments and this would never do :) Cheers...

Vastman

Zo
Spitefire Albion and Sable series are just crazy ....

Zo, you're spot on... Spitfire is really awesome and Albion is sweet...but they only seem to do sales on their initial offering.  I was bummed I missed Albion3 Icine's 25%off but didn't know about it...
 
Daniel James has done 1+ hours in depth reviews of each of the Albion series and many of the other high end packages such as LASS vs. Hollywood Strings, Cini-strings/winds/brass, Symphobia....  He  did a GREAT one of NI's Action Strings and showed all the amazing things it could do, despite the poopooing of uppity composers...it caused me to buy it... He is the best youtube educator out their, does lots of scoring, is funny, buys all his own stuff (no freebees) and writes amazing stuff... by the time you are done listening to his hour+ demonstrations of how he wrote a song using a packags you really learn a lot and understand what you're getting... I've watched the Iceni vid 3 times, with my KRK's blasting and both laughing, crying, and digesting his awesome critiques/user experience... 
 
he's at: http://www.youtube.com/user/dazexus
 
He convinced me not to get the new Hanns Zimmer Percussion Spitfire package while also causing me to go without coffee, beer, or any other extras for several months to be able to swing Albion 3... it fits with what I want to do so well...
 
Definately check out what he says about anything you're considering... he breaks all the conventions when discussing these packages and it's very refreshing and on point...

Zo
be sure to not update to K5.3 stcik with k5.2 ..since i have zero help from NI and other brand i spent 3 dayz trying to isolate issues .....(issues not happening with K4 and 100% reproducible)