From Cheap to Chic: Enhancing Music Playback Quality of Budget Earphones via Hardware-Aware Learning

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Sample Demonstration Overview

This page presents our Cheap2Chic system using two representative device pairs and five music genres to demonstrate its performance.

For Device Pair 1, the low-end earphone is IE-L1: Fransun E20, and the target high-end earphone is IE-H2: Sennheiser IE 300.
For Device Pair 2, the low-end earphone is OE-L1: Mezone P2961, and the target high-end earphone is OE-H2: Beyerdynamic DT700 PRO X.

Because most visitors do not have these exact devices, all audio samples are recordings made after playback through the corresponding earphones. Concretely, each table column represents:

This setup enables listeners to experience the qualitative improvements achieved by Cheap2Chic under realistic playback conditions across different hardware configurations.

Device Pair 1: IE-L1 → IE-H2

Genres Low-End Cheap2Chic High-End
Blues
Classical
Hip-hop
Metal
Pop

Device Pair 2: OE-L1 → OE-H2

Genres Low-End Cheap2Chic High-End
Blues
Classical
Hip-hop
Metal
Pop