hi,is this our new direction?http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-160 mike

This product is the "Exception" as in Exceptional. These are probably the standard by which all other sample sounds are measured. The finest string samples in the world.

I don't think this is indicative in the direction of sample sounds, but like anything else High Quality = High Price and this seems to be the case with Synth samples.