As far as quality you get what you pay for with the orchestral VSTs, but unless you're doing film scoring as a professional career edirol or EW Gold should be fine.
finally, a thread that's not hatin on edirol orchestral! I want to try EWQLSO but not cause I'm not happy with orchrestral, but because I've used orchestrals sounds over and over and I need to find some more.
yea silver edition is only $175 which is pretty much a amazing deal because the power of the symphonic orchestra is crazy.......i use that for all my beats whether its crunk, epic, or r&b......i really enjoy hypersonic 2 also!!
I'll second the disappointment. I've been using Miroslav Philharmonik for a while, but after hearing some work using EWQL orchestra I'm pretty set on investing in that. Philharmonik just takes up too much processing power for what it is. It requires you to layer at least 3 or 4 "instruments" on top of each other to get any kind of full sound. Plus I wasn't too impressed with the effects.