Had a couple of head-fier friends over last night so they could check out the LCD-4 as well as the new WA5LE. Rather than speaking for them, I'll point them at the thread and they can chime in if they wish to, but a couple of interesting things came up.
The most consistent comment was that there was little dimensionality to the soundstage with the LCD-4. It had some width, more than other Audeze headphones, but was mostly a relatively narrow and two-dimensional presentation. That was with them being driven by a WA5LE and a Ragnarok and both fed with Yggdrasil.
One of the guys, "B", has heard the 100 ohm versions of the LCD-4 (mine are the new 200 ohm driver) and commented that the soundstage on the original driver was a lot more expansive. He still maintains a preference for the LCD-4, but he tends to call things as he hears them and this was his most prominent observation. He has a nice description of how the Abyss renders the soundstage and I won't steal his thunder in using it here ... but I'd tend to agree with it.
The other, "J" (though "H" as he'll post here, if he does) said his first listen, last night, to the LCD-4 made him question his existing order for the Abyss. By the end of the evening he was back to preferring the Abyss. And, interestingly enough, he found the more holographic presentation they give with the Woo amp a bit overpowering and preferred them via the Ragnarok.
Now ... I have a bit more than 250 hours on my LCD-4 at this point and I would still describe them as having a very intimate, two dimensional, soundstage, both with the Woo and the Rok, but I'm interested to see what others are finding there and how much they are seeing that change as they accumulate hours on them. This is not something I see as a negative, by the way ... I have plenty of music that perfectly suits this more intimate portrayal of space, and my mood often goes in that direction too ... I'm just curious.