There is a much newer technology now. I suspect the street price will reflect a larger increase in price due to consumer misunderstanding. Many dealers and manufacturers know that if they mark something at a fair price that the uninformed consumers will think there is something wrong with it simply because the price is low. Consequently there is a whole cottage industry of archtop builders that are unfairly commanding huge sums of money for their wares. Not that the PRS is low priced but I think that if you buy the lower priced models they are not a bad deal.
Heritage is probably the absolute best bang for the buck.
They come in at less than half of a PRS and they are full Jazz Boxes in the traditional sense. D'Angelico's are available again and they are priced at approximate 3,000.00. As I previously stated I dislike the PRS Hollow body because there are numerous competitors who do versions of that model better and much cheaper and without the PRS feedback problems. But the Artist version of this guitar is probably the most stupidly overpriced thing I have ever seen. I thought that a 10 top was measured on a scale of 10.