JLab JBuds Air (2018) vs CCA C10

While the CCA C10 makes for a fairly good In-Ear Monitor for people with a $40 budget, we weren't able to find enough data on the JLab JBuds Air (2018) to come to any reliable conclusions.

In either case, we suggest that you look at some other options at the $40 and $30 budget ranges before committing to one of these.

If you'd nonetheless like to learn more about the CCA C10 and JLab JBuds Air (2018), however, we wrote a summary of what we know about them:

The reviewers at Head-fi have featured the CCA C10 in their CCA C10 roundup. However, it fell short of making it to the top of their list.

As for our analysis of the JLab JBuds Air (2018) - it's considered to be a great product by two reliable sources that do their own hands-on testing - it earned the "Best cheap totally wireless headphones" award from Good Housekeeping and "Ranked 3 out of 9" from headphonesaddict.com, which is no small feat.

We couldn't find any sources that tested both of these In-Ear Monitors, so we only analyzed how they performed in reviews from different sites.

We first examined which sources rated each of these best and found that the CCA C10 got its highest, 9.1, rating from Head-fi, while the JLab JBuds Air (2018) earned its best, 9.5, score from techaeris.com.

Lastly, we averaged out all of their review ratings and observed that the CCA C10, with its 9.1 average, performed considerably better than most In-Ear Monitors - the mean score for the product category being 7.7 out of 10 - while the JLab JBuds Air (2018) managed an average of 7.5.

There's one caveat here - it might not be entirely justifiable to do a direct CCA C10 vs. JLab JBuds Air (2018) review average comparison since they aren't priced the same and more expensive products tend to get higher review scores from some sources.