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It’s normally hard to get excited over a $20 earphone once you start venturing higher in other price brackets, but the TRN STM just got me excited again to hunt down unique and just cool sounding earphones.

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September 22, 2020October 23, 2021 Baskingshark (Singapore)

TRN STM Review (2) – Transformers, Different Tunings In Disguise

The TRN STM is a budget CHIFI brightish U-shaped hybrid that offers 3 tuning nozzles to finetune the sound signature. It has good price to performance ratio and good technicalities for the price. A nitpick would be the common artificial BA timbre for acoustic instruments and thinner note weight. Don’t be expecting a tour de force for the price, (and keep your expectations in check), but I think its very decent value for 20ish bucks.

Budget Earphones Review Star Rated

August 20, 2020August 30, 2021 Loomis T. Johnson (Chicago, USA)

TRN-STM Review (1) – The Devil Wears Lucite

Finding absurdly cheap models like the TRN-STM are precisely what makes this obsession enjoyable—they’re colored as hell and purists may shudder, but give me that caffeine buzz are recommended nonetheless.

Budget Earphones Photography

August 19, 2020March 12, 2022 Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

Photographed (And FR Graphed): TRN-STM Earphone

Technical photography and frequency responses of the TRN-STM earphone.

Budget Earphones Review

September 18, 2022October 24, 2022 Loomis T. Johnson (Chicago, USA)

TRN ST5 Hybrid IEM Review – I Sing the Body Electric

I’m hard-pressed to find a more recommendable cheapo, and ultimately the ED9 is tough to criticize.

Earphones Mid Price Review

January 25, 2021August 30, 2021 Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

TRN BA8 Review (2) – Cuts Like A Knife

The TRN BA8 is a well-resolving and otherwise technically very good earphone that fails on its overly aggressive sound and sterile presentation.

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December 21, 2020February 11, 2021 Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

Christmas Greetings 2020

We wish you and our cooperating partners a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2021.

Budget Earphones Review Thumbs Up

November 21, 2020August 30, 2021 Baskingshark (Singapore)

TRN V90S Review (1) – Rosso Corsa

The TRN V90S is a V-shaped hybrid that does most things well. In fact, it is tuned smoother and not as hot as the average CHIFI multi driver set.

Almost Thumbs Down Earphones Mid Price Review

November 10, 2020October 23, 2021 Baskingshark (Singapore)

TRN BA8 Review (1) – PTSD Inducing Graph, Screaming Banshee?

A picture paints a thousand words. The TRN BA8’s graph looks like a volcano that is going to explode!

Budget Earphones Review

July 24, 2020August 30, 2021 Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

TRN-VX Review (3) – Technical Ecstasy

The TRN-VX earphone is a 6 BA +1 DD hybrid that excels by its superb build and its (in this class) unparalleled technical abilities. But it does not work right out of the box and needs a different cable and some 3M micropore tape on the nozzle to work well.