
Truthear Pure
The Hexa tilted warm: 37 rigs agree on exactly what changed, and the people wearing it split on whether that is the HD 650 of IEMs or a blanket over the music — and on whether the shell fits at all.
6 reviews
Measurement-driven budget IEMs
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Truthear is a Chinese in-ear monitor brand founded in 2022 and based in Shenzhen, known for measurement-driven budget sets — several, including the Zero series, co-developed with the reviewer Crinacle.

The Hexa tilted warm: 37 rigs agree on exactly what changed, and the people wearing it split on whether that is the HD 650 of IEMs or a blanket over the music — and on whether the shell fits at all.

The $22 set that measures almost exactly on target — and still splits its listeners over treble, bass and stage, mostly by how deep it sits in the ear.

The $150 Harman hybrid that measures like a Variations — and splits every room it plays in.

Crinacle's neutral-with-bass benchmark — a tuning nearly everyone admires, wrapped in a nozzle, a durability record and a hype cycle that plenty of people don't.

The bassiest Zero yet — and the one the reviewer class turned on, over its treble.

The $80 neutral benchmark, four years on: everyone agrees on the tuning, and the argument has moved to whether 'neutral' means reference or lifeless — and whether a 2 dB-short bass shelf is honesty or anemia.
Prices in USD, recorded when each review was updated.