RB42-C Premium Center Channel Bookshelf Speaker with Dual 4-Inch Woofers and Silk Tweeter, Clearer Dialogue for Home Theater Surround Sound Systems, Single, Dark Walnut

Objectively, these are absolutely amazing speakers for the price. First off: as these are budget speakers, It seems fitting to write this review based on my experience with them in a budget system. I ordered two of these center channel speakers and am using them in a stereo setup. I am using my computer's DAC and feeding it to an SMSL SA-50 stereo amplifier to power these speakers. These are far more efficient than the RB42's. The RB42's are rated at 83dB; these speakers, the RB42-C's, are 86dB. For reference, the RB42's would need twice as much power to play at the same volume as these. That makes far easier to run, and far less anemic at the low end with amplifiers below the 75-or-so watt output per channel. Instrumentals are more transparent than most speakers in this price range and lower bass is very punchy, with no muddiness in the subbass range. Instrumentals just sound cleannn at any volume. Vocals are also open and unmuddied; I'd say veering on transparent. At least, more transparent than any speaker in this price range that you don't have to build yourself. Vocals are, however, a tiny bit more recessed than instrumentals. That's not a bad thing, and Micca even describes these speakers as having that characteristic; they're warm speakers, so of course they're going to sound like that. That being said, my bias leads to me preferring more sibilant speakers. I really like accentuation on the S's and T's of singers' voices, and i prefer forward sounding speakers because they're really good at just tearing recordings apart and showing me how good the recording quality is. If you want piercing vocals, these may not be for you. Now, these are definitely speakers for small to medium sized rooms. My bedroom is about 14x14ft, which i consider to be smaller side of medium sized rooms. Around 20x20ft is where you really start getting to large sized rooms, which these speakers might have a hard time filling. Before you continue reading: note that the below info only applies to you if you want to put these in a larger room than like 18 or 20 square feet. In my room - which is smaller than that - this isn't an issue and these sound great. If you are looking for speakers for a room the size of mine at this price point, then just buy these speakers because holy crap they're good. These speakers are not good for large rooms because they have the MOST egregious port chuff at loud volumes I've ever heard in my life. Let's set the stage. I got one of my two speakers a few hours before the other one. I immediately set up this single speaker in my living room and played it without a subwoofer. Pushing about 20-30 watts into it, I genuinely thought it was broken. At first, I thought one of the two woofers was already getting coil rub. The second speaker arrived and it made the same noise! Statistics say the likeliness of two DOA speakers is unlikely, so I investigated further. Turns out, the ports on these speakers are just extremely loud at living-room-volumes and boy do they RUIN music and movies with any signal below the midrange, so you better have a crossover set at 80 hertz or so and have everything below that sent to a sub. Overall: These are frickin' amazing speakers. Especially at this price point. I've heard speakers for $300 and $400 range that just can't compete in the RB42-C's capacity for transparency. Vocals and instrumentals are clean. They're easy to listen to and they make me want to listen to my collection again to hear how beautiful pianos and female vocals are. They're worth $200 for a pair.

For me, this is an awesome price point vs quality unit. I have a moderate budget system. Nothing high-end and expensive. I was missing a center channel and a sub, so I started to investigate for those to two pieces to enhance my home stereo and upgrade it into a 5.1 system. After much research I found out about the Micca RB42-C after almost buying the MB42-C. After hearing a review from a YouTuber Joe N Tell, I decided to try it. There are many more purchases for the MB42-C and I'm sure it sounds good as well for under a hundred dollars, but the RB42-C is more refined right at a hundred dollars, so I went with it and couldn't be happier. Not sure what a 500.00 center speaker would sound like, but I don't have 500.00 to find out! It's a budget system that sounds pretty darn good and I'm musician, so I have an ear for music! After several hours and tweaking my Audio Visual Receiver ie, dimension, surround, levels, image, equalizer, ect. I got it dialed in pretty good and am enjoying it a lot. Hugh difference over just left and right signals. It took me a while to understand all the functionality of my receiver (Yamaha RX-V375) since I never had it set up in a 5.1 environment, just stereo left and right and to get all the speakers working "together" for the sound I now have and it's awesome! What a difference! Glad I finally did it! Way to go Micca! For the price of this unit, the quality of the build and the clean natural sound it adds, I don't know how you could go wrong! Well worth checking it out, but you will have to learn your system to get it all to work together. Once your system is dialed in everything should work together to focus you on the TV, not any one element of your sound and when those certain tracks come in the movie that's when you know that those subs, front, rear and center channel are working and sounding. When I got to that point the RB42-C was really a great addition. Just plugging it in and turning it up on a surround setup won't be enough to really utilize what it's able to do for your "budget" system. When I say budget I don't mean cheap, I mean a sweet spot for money spent vs hearing pleasure. I am very pleased with it!!!

These are very nice budget speakers. Possibly the nicest budget speakers I've ever had the opportunity to own. The weight of the cabinet, the veneer, the binding posts, the grill, it all oozes quality. The sound is not top-tier, but that's not expected at under $100 each. What you do get is excellent sound, with great sensitivity (it gets loud easily compared to the rest of the Micca lineup). It works exceptionally well as a center channel with the OoO speakers for a discount 3.0/LCR setup, but all of these, even the RB-42c, really need at least a mini-subwoofer to round out the bottom end. I'm not going to say something silly like, "these sound as good as speakers costing $500 each!" but honestly, if you're not into golden ear hi-fi or an audio snob, these probably will sound great until you hit several hundred dollars each. The only reservation I have about them is a bit of cloudiness in the mid range, but that's more physics than anything--you'd really need to move to a bigger or stiffer driver to resolve that (no pun intended). High end is smooth and enjoyable, a far cry from the awful MB-42x. Low end is represented but not strong; this is not a home theater speaker without a subwoofer. I would be more than happy to have a full set of these across the front if I was looking to spend less than $800 for a 5 channel setup (minus sub). I don't have a set of RB-42 but unless that extra inch of height is a deal-breaker, these seem like the way to go for the additional sensitivity. They get loud easily and that's a good thing. Level matching them to the OoO takes -5dB, which is very nice.

Crystal clear sound. Love it!

Für das Geld wirklich gut! Für nen 5.1 in einer Mietwohnung mehr als Ausreichend!👌

Was looking for something to replace floor speakers wasn't sure about these even tho the reviews were great. Bought 1 now i have to buy a matching one. Not an audiophile but I have had alot of cheap speakers over the years these are 1000x better. Mids and highs are great and bass even tho it's not the floor rattling kind (Duel 4" not going to do that) sounds as good as the floor speakers with 10" sub built in. Blown away truly.

É uma coluna de diálogos para o preço bastante boa com uns graves acentuados!

Value for money! Keep the Crossover at 80HZ to enjoy the sound better