I doubt there will be a price reduction during the pre-order phase to which they are still in apparently. Although probably will be sene as a good will gesture, the thing is, if Alphacool do that, they can never bring the price back up. So given it's a damned if they do, damned if they don't, the likelihood is they'll keep the same price and stick to the idea that the price is the cost of materials, etc.
Although to be honest, given the amount of metallic material involved in the fan (not enough), I suspected that it wasn't going to do much to "absorb" the vibrations/noise/resonance from the fan. Especially since you can tighten a fan down tight to a hunk of metal (case) and it'll still cause those vibrations and noise/resonance. If it was all metal and heavy enough, it might prevent it's own vibrations from doing anything (when not connected to anything), but it'll still transfer through whatever they are touching if it's a strong enough fan (and there's a few of them running at the same time as well). And if it's not strong enough, then there's insufficient airflow to even considering getting over (existing and upcoming) rival products.
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