{"id":64507,"date":"2025-11-06T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64507"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:05:58","slug":"cc-buds-solo-two-years-into-the-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/cc-buds-solo-two-years-into-the-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Buds Solo: Two years into the mission . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay, okay, I can almost predict what you will be thinking: it\u2019s not<\/em> the most expensive piece of gear in your listening kit. But for me, headphones or earbuds that pipe the audio from my SW receiver or scanner directly into my ears is one of my most valued pieces of equipment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why? First, because I have a hearing deficit that headphones or earbuds help to overcome. Second, to preserve domestic tranquility, so my wife doesn\u2019t have to endure the squeaks, squawks, and static crashes that are often part of the listening experience. (We Armchair Adventurers have to keep our priorities straight.) And third, to help me concentrate on teasing out faint signals.<\/p>\n

So I am a fan of headphones and earbuds, but I have had a difficult relationship with them because the wires break.<\/em> That\u2019s right; until recently, all of the headphones or earbuds that I employed eventually failed because the wire\/cable connecting the headphones or earbuds to the radio failed, either losing any signal entirely or becoming intermittent.<\/p>\n

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Two years ago, the folks at CCrane teased me with a marketing email that offered CC Buds Solo In-Ear Single Earbud with a cable that was Kevlar reinforced for \u201cmaximum durability.\u201d Intrigued, I purchased the \u201cbuy two, get one free\u201d deal because I knew, just knew<\/em>, Kevlar-reinforced or not, the cable would eventually fail.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what? The cable did not <\/em>fail<\/strong>, not even a little bit, despite my treating it badly. (Once, while walking, the cable caught on a doorknob, yanking the earbud out of my ear and a small digital recorder out of my pocket. And that\u2019s not the only time I have inadvertently done my best to render it inoperable.) Two years into the mission, I am still using the original CCrane solo earbud that I first unpacked. The second one is deployed upstairs for my horizontal DXing exploits in the middle of the night, and the third I gave to a friend. CCrane says the audio is \u201ctuned for superior voice quality,\u201d which works just fine for my purposes.<\/p>\n

So the upshot, if you hadn\u2019t guessed, is that I can heartily recommend the CCrane Solo Earbud<\/a>. If you consult the original post, found here — https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/checking-out-ccranes-solo-earbud\/<\/a> — you can discover some additional details and some of the reasons why I find listening with one<\/em> earbud to be an advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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But for me, headphones or earbuds that pipe the audio from my SW receiver or scanner directly into my ears is one of my most valued pieces of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"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":[4199,3,43],"tags":[7912,7911,9323],"class_list":["post-64507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-c-crane-cc-buds-solo","tag-c-crane-cc-buds-solo-in-ear-single-earbud","tag-jock-elliott-kb2gom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gMr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58328,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/checking-out-ccranes-solo-earbud\/","url_meta":{"origin":64507,"position":0},"title":"Checking out CCrane\u2019s Solo Earbud","author":"Jock Elliott","date":"December 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM The marketing email from CCrane intrigued me. \u201cThe cable is Kevlar\u2122 reinforced for maximum durability\u201d it said. 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