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\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Jeff McMahon, who notes that he\u2019s published a new post on his blog, the Herculodge. In this article, he compares the Tecsun PL-680 with its near-twin, the PL-660, and shares his observations on performance, design, and speaker quality\u2014along with a few unexpected surprises. You can read his full post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Jeff McMahon, who notes that he\u2019s published a new post on his blog, the Herculodge. In this article, he compares the Tecsun PL-680 with its near-twin, the PL-660, and shares his observations on performance, design, and speaker quality\u2014along with a few unexpected surprises. You can read his full post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2940,4464],"class_list":["post-62221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-herculodge","tag-jeff-mcmahon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gbz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64689,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/not-so-identical-jeff-compares-the-pl-660-and-pl-680\/","url_meta":{"origin":62221,"position":0},"title":"Not So Identical: Jeff Compares the PL-660 and PL-680","author":"Thomas","date":"November 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Jeff McMahon, who notes that he\u2019s just published a new article exploring why the Tecsun PL-660 and PL-680 \u201ctwins\u201d aren\u2019t quite twins after all. 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