I have a similar plugin budget, around $50/month. I used to blow a lot more until I started to question the dollar/reward ratio. But over the last year and a half I've gone months without buying anything, enabling me to make a few larger purchases, like my Komplete Ultimate upgrade, and just a few days ago I splashed out on The Glue. I feel like I'm getting way more than my $100 worth from that plugin already. Quality, not quantity, is definitely the way forward for me from now on. 

I vowed that I wasn't going to yield to template and purchase any more delays or verbs...
But when faced with the PSP Echo/PianoVerb deal I backslid and bought not one but both.
It was the PSP Echo ducking feature that did me in; once my right hand whipped out that bankcard the left hand demanded a turn; after all the the PianoVerb might prove useful it told me.
<sigh>
Trying to stop feeding my GAS addiction and reading this forum is like an alcoholic spending his time reading wine reviews and going through the Bevmo sales flyers.   

I was thinking of picking up the PSP delay, but Tkdelay just added ducking, so I'm all good for now. Tkdelay covers 90% of what I need and it's easy to use.
 
Delay8 is also really cool. I use it for Holdsworth style sounds. I'm amazing that something so good is free.

bitflipper
It never occurred to me that I might need for a reverb just for piano, and I'm still not certain I do. But it does sound nice, a little weird but nice.

Ah, but you're missing the point, IMO.  Don't use it on piano.  Use it on, for example, acoustic guitar for a very nice affect that people will wonder over how you achieved it.

Yeah, it actually is a piano-like reverb, imitating the way piano strings reverberate.

Fleer
Yeah, it actually is a piano-like reverb, imitating the way piano strings reverberate.

Yes, more of a resonant effect than a reverb. I got the free version when I was trying to emulate the guitar sound from the Strawbs "Down by the Sea" which was the result of putting the guitar speaker under a grand piano. I never nailed that sound but its a nice effect none the less.

Hey Bit,
 
Not to give you a swelled head or nothin', but appreciate once again your solid and objective analysis, feedback about delays. So helpful.
 
Reference tritik. Have no idea why I even purchased the damn thing. Probably in an alcoholic rampage, forgotten under the dam.
 
Revisited the plug, and almost all the bells and whistles are there in simplicity.
 
Thanks for getting me back on track.
 
John

 I had to keep reminding myself I had tkDelay for months while it languished in my "rarely used" folder. Eventually it worked its way up to a permanent position on the first string team and into the frontline folder. 
 

I just installed the demo version of tkDelay.....so far I like it...BUT...and I'm not sure it's the fault of the delay...but on occasion, it will "flake out" on me.....all the settings on the gui will start just flying around....and then Sonar Platinum crashes....yet the Sonar process cannot be killed, resulting in a reboot....
 
I'm just wondering if anyone else using that delay has had any issues like that.  I've only been running Platinum for a week or so...using the most recent incarnation....
 
I like the delay, and would likely purchase it, but...not if it's potentially problematic.....  I probably should have purchased the PSP Echo when it was on sale, but didn't......the demo of that hasn't seemed to result in any issues (as of yet, anyway).

Haven't seen that behavior.