I must say, I'm a little disturbed at the price increase. I get it though: it is reasonable that the best headphone in a category would cost the most. OTOH, if the best headphoe in the category is reasonably priced, that settles the price for performance at that price. In other words, with the LCD3 at $2k, we'll see lots more (dumbass) manufacturers pricing their cans there to intimate that their can is worthy. It just seems high to me. I'd like to see them priced at $1499.
Oh well, they're still very, very good.