--- product_id: 160189989 title: "Micca 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" brand: "micca" price: "238112CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 category: "Micca" url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/160189989-micca-rb42-c-premium-center-channel-bookshelf-speaker-with-dual store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # 0.75-inch silk dome tweeter for smooth highs Dual 4-inch woofers for punchy bass 10-element crossover for crystal-clear sound Micca 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 **Brand:** micca **Price:** 238112CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎬 Elevate your home theater with sound that speaks volumes! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Micca 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 by micca - **How much does it cost?** 238112CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/160189989-micca-rb42-c-premium-center-channel-bookshelf-speaker-with-dual) ## Best For - micca enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted micca brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Silky Smooth Highs:** Premium silk dome tweeter with neodymium magnet ensures refined, distortion-free treble. - • **Versatile & Stylish:** Dark walnut finish and symmetrical design fit seamlessly in any modern home theater or bookshelf setup. - • **Crisp Dialogue, Every Time:** Engineered for clear, authoritative movie and music vocals that put you in the director’s chair. - • **Precision Sound Engineering:** Advanced 10-element crossover with high-grade components for balanced tonal clarity and superior off-axis performance. - • **Powerful Bass Meets Elegant Design:** Dual 4-inch woofers with heavy steel frames deliver robust low-end without sacrificing style. ## Overview The Micca RB42-C is a premium center channel speaker featuring dual 4-inch woofers and a 0.75-inch silk dome tweeter, designed to deliver clear dialogue and rich sound for home theater surround systems. Its advanced 10-element crossover and robust build provide punchy bass, smooth highs, and balanced tonal clarity, all wrapped in a sleek dark walnut finish perfect for small to medium rooms. ## Description Product description Micca RB42-C Center Channel Speaker Handsomely styled center channel speaker that delivers a level of performance that belies its affordability. Gorgeous, affordable, sounds good! Compact, affordable, sounds good! With robust bass and midrange output and a silky smooth sound signature, it renders movie dialogue and music with clarity and authority. Dressed up in dark wood pattern and clean modern lines, this is a speaker you won’t feel the urge to hide. Its symmetrical design also means that the RB42-C can be used vertically as bookshelf speakers when purchased in a pair. Bring the theater experience home and enjoy all your movies from the best seat in the house! Note that the RB42-C is a passive speaker and requires an amplifier or receiver to produce sound. It cannot be connected directly to a TV, turntable, or computer. An amplifier is required and not included. This is a single speaker, buy two for a pair. Speaker wire is required and not included. Each of the two 4-inch woofers is built on a truncated heavy steel frame and substantial magnet structure. Its long-throw design incorporates a coated pressed paper cone with a concave dust cap, large radius rubber surround, and vented pole piece. The tweeter is based on Micca’s popular 0.75-inch silk dome design, using a high-efficiency neodymium magnet and small bezel for tight driver spacing. Translucent mesh fabric over beveled thin frame makes up the acoustically transparent grill cover The RB42-C owes its tonal balance and transparency to a 10-element crossover that uses high-grade film capacitors and air-core coils for key components. Both the tweeter and woofer circuits have an 18dB/octave slope to enhance power handling, dramatically reduced lobing, and superior off-axis performance. Distortion and coloration are effectively reduced through the use of ¾-inch thick MDF panels on all sides of the enclosure, with 100% miter joints for greater bonding contact area. The enclosure is stuffed to specific density with polyfill to eliminate resonance and enhanced enclosure tuning. The RB42-C’s sound signature is warm and slightly forward, perfect for enhancing the clarity of dialogue and singer vocals. It is dynamic, energetic, and inviting to listen to for hours on end. Sit down for a listen and you’ll be rewarded by its revealing qualities full of dynamic detail. The midrange output is particularly engaging for a relatively compact speaker, while its smooth frequency response reproduces music and movies faithfully. The tweeter is level biased just slightly below neutral to reduce listening fatigue without losing an ounce of detail. Specifications Woofer: Dual 4” Coated Paper, Rubber Surround Tweeter: 0.75” Silk Dome Crossover: 18dB/Octave Freq. Response: 50Hz-20kHz (Typical In-Room) Impedance: 4-8 Ohms Sensitivity: 86dB 1W/1M Power Handling: 15-100 Watts (Each) Dimensions: 5.2” (H) x 14.8” (W) x 8.3” (D) Why Compromise? Choosing the right center-channel speaker can make or break a home theater system. By offering great sound and a great looking design, the RB42-C is compelling no matter what your budget is. Try It In Your Own Home! We invite you to take a listen and try it in your own home with your favorite movie or music. Use the RB42-C horizontally as a center channel, or vertically for all other applications. They can be placed on a media center shelf, tabletop, or on appropriate speaker stands. If they fall short of your expectations, simply return them for a refund. Review: A Shockingly Beautiful Speaker with a Single Caveat - 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. Review: Wow. Just wow - With good reviews on their bookshelves my sister was looking for a two channel set up in a living room, seeing how these can output more I recommended these. When she got them we hooked them up and started playing Music, and you could tell these Were cut from a different cloth. I was so impressed I ordered a pair for my bedroom setup. So I’ve had them for a few days and they are impressive. Hooking them up to the Yamaha R-S700 The sound was punchy while being detailed but not too revealing. These strike a good balance of being forgiving but also giving detail on the top end. Wanting to see how the Miccas compared I brought them into my living room to do a bake off with my Klipsch RP 8000f. Hooking them up to my marantz sr6012 they were adequately able to fill a large living room, I did notice a drop off in bass but that was easily augmented with a subwoofer. The Marantz really opened up the Micca’s, it allowed them to breathe, while the imaging wasn’t as precise as on the Klipsch. The soundstage was larger and even seemed to extend past the speakers. The Klipsch’s had a more forward performance with a stage in front of you. While the micca’s sound seemed to wrap around you. Mid range speed and accuracy is something the micca’s Excel in While the klipsch’s had a much more weighted and punchy mid range. Overall for $300 a pair I couldn’t Believe how well these Were able to keep up with my $1200 a pair towers, even preferring the Micca’s in some songs. Overall these are a Homerun, they’re affordable, they sound great, and they’re incredibly well-built. Caveats: These speakers need some time to break in, when I first got them I noticed the treble was a little shrill but it calmed down over the next hour or so. Also as I continued to play music through them the soundstage seemed to open up more. These have no problem filling a medium size room and under with loud levels with no distortion. But with large rooms I did notice a drop off in bass, it worked best to run these with a sub and a high pass filter. Once I did that I could play them at similarly loud levels as the Klipsch’s without distortion. The speakers need to be pulled away from the wall a little, the ports are very small and there’s a lot of air that comes through it so I noticed if it was up against the wall you would hear port chuffing. But an easy fix just pull it away from the wall a little bit and it goes away. overall five stars, great speaker Micca ## Features - The Micca RB42-C is a handsomely styled center channel speaker that delivers a level of performance that belies its affordable price. With robust bass and midrange output and a silky smooth sound signature, it renders movie dialogue and music with clarity and authority. - Each of the two 4-inch woofers is built on a truncated heavy steel frame and substantial magnet structure. Its long-throw design incorporates a coated pressed paper cone with a concave dust cap, large radius rubber surround, and vented pole piece. - The tweeter is based on Micca’s popular 0.75-inch silk dome design, using a high-efficiency neodymium magnet and small bezel for tight driver spacing. - The RB42-C owes its tonal balance and transparency to a 10-element crossover that uses high-grade film capacitors and air-core coils for key components. Both the tweeter and woofer circuits have an 18dB/octave slope to enhance power handling, dramatically reduced lobing, and superior off-axis performance. - Dressed up in dark wood pattern and clean modern lines, this is a speaker you won’t feel the urge to hide. Its symmetrical design also means that the RB42-C can be used vertically as bookshelf speakers when purchased in a pair. Bring the theater experience home and enjoy all your movies from the best seat in the house! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B07WK4KBZV | | Additional Features | Bass Boost, Built In Microphone | | Age Range Description | Adult | | Antenna Location | Music | | Audio Driver Type | Dynamic Driver | | Audio Output Mode | Surround | | Best Sellers Rank | #67,469 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #28 in Center-Channel Speakers | | Brand | Micca | | Built-In Media | crossover and 5-way binding post | | Color | Dark Walnut | | Compatible Devices | Personal Computer, Television | | Compatible with Vehicle Type | Car | | Connectivity Protocol | RCA, XLR, Speaker Wire | | Connectivity Technology | Wired | | Control Method | Remote | | Controller Type | Corded electric | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 253 Reviews | | Is Waterproof | FALSE | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 8.3"D x 14.8"W x 5.2"H | | Item Weight | 4000 Grams | | MP3 player | No | | Manufacturer | Micca | | Model Name | RB42 C | | Model Number | RB42C | | Mounting Type | Shelf Mount | | Number of Audio Channels | 5.1 | | Number of Items | 1 | | Number of Power Levels | 1 | | Power Source | Corded Electric | | Speaker Maximum Output Power | 18 Watts | | Speaker Size | 4 Inches | | Speaker Type | Center Channel | | Specific Uses For Product | Home audio, Personal audio entertainment | | Subwoofer Connectivity Technology | Wired | | Subwoofer Diameter | 4 Inches | | Tweeter Diameter | 1.91 Centimeters | | UPC | 843528100094 | | Warranty Type | Limited | | Water Resistance Level | Not Water Resistant | | Wireless Technology | Bluetooth | | Woofer Diameter | 4 Inches | ## Product Details - **Audio Output Mode:** Surround - **Brand:** Micca - **Connectivity Technology:** Wired - **Mounting Type:** Shelf Mount - **Speaker Maximum Output Power:** 18 Watts ## Images ![Micca 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 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716URgXq8wL.jpg) ![Micca 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 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815tU2cd2TL.jpg) ![Micca 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 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61LkG26Dn9L.jpg) ![Micca 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 - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61CP1JGq0BL.jpg) ![Micca 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 - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81QNQhggh7L.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: For those who use the rb42s with this, what amp/receiver do you use? planning on a 3.1 set up for now and possibly upgrade to a 5.1 someday. thanks.** A: I use a Denon x1600h I got on sale. Can get a renewed one on Amazon right now for $330. Could also search used/sales for 5-7ch's. Check homeaudio/theater and alike sub-reddits for recommendations/sites for deals, etc. I don't utilize other channels except the sub out at the moment but I didn't want to box myself in. Love my Denon and these Micca's sound stunning for the $. **Q: Is this a better center channel than the mb42x?** A: Simply put, yes it is. This is Micca’s “Reference” line which took the great parts about the MB series of products and made them even better sounding, and arguably better looking. I’m biased at this point but I don’t think there’s any better value in high fidelity speakers. Get one and enjoy! **Q: I have 4 sony cs-5 bookshelve speakers for a 5.1 system. would the rb42-c be a good match for center channel ?** A: El Jay, the Micca RB42-C is a very balanced sounding speaker that will make a good center channel. The Sony's you currently are listening to have a sensitivity rating of 87db and the Micca's are rated at 86db. That is close enough. I do not know the sound characteristics of the Sonys so I can't tell how they would blend in a system. Hope this helps. **Q: Do you need special cables to hook these up?** A: You speaker wires need banana plugs on the end that hooks to the speaker. If your wires need these plugs, they are very inexpensive and you can get the kind that don't need tools or solder to connect. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Shockingly Beautiful Speaker with a Single Caveat *by J***. on October 9, 2019* 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow. Just wow *by C***D on October 30, 2019* With good reviews on their bookshelves my sister was looking for a two channel set up in a living room, seeing how these can output more I recommended these. When she got them we hooked them up and started playing Music, and you could tell these Were cut from a different cloth. I was so impressed I ordered a pair for my bedroom setup. So I’ve had them for a few days and they are impressive. Hooking them up to the Yamaha R-S700 The sound was punchy while being detailed but not too revealing. These strike a good balance of being forgiving but also giving detail on the top end. Wanting to see how the Miccas compared I brought them into my living room to do a bake off with my Klipsch RP 8000f. Hooking them up to my marantz sr6012 they were adequately able to fill a large living room, I did notice a drop off in bass but that was easily augmented with a subwoofer. The Marantz really opened up the Micca’s, it allowed them to breathe, while the imaging wasn’t as precise as on the Klipsch. The soundstage was larger and even seemed to extend past the speakers. The Klipsch’s had a more forward performance with a stage in front of you. While the micca’s sound seemed to wrap around you. Mid range speed and accuracy is something the micca’s Excel in While the klipsch’s had a much more weighted and punchy mid range. Overall for $300 a pair I couldn’t Believe how well these Were able to keep up with my $1200 a pair towers, even preferring the Micca’s in some songs. Overall these are a Homerun, they’re affordable, they sound great, and they’re incredibly well-built. Caveats: These speakers need some time to break in, when I first got them I noticed the treble was a little shrill but it calmed down over the next hour or so. Also as I continued to play music through them the soundstage seemed to open up more. These have no problem filling a medium size room and under with loud levels with no distortion. But with large rooms I did notice a drop off in bass, it worked best to run these with a sub and a high pass filter. Once I did that I could play them at similarly loud levels as the Klipsch’s without distortion. The speakers need to be pulled away from the wall a little, the ports are very small and there’s a lot of air that comes through it so I noticed if it was up against the wall you would hear port chuffing. But an easy fix just pull it away from the wall a little bit and it goes away. overall five stars, great speaker Micca ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great centre channel speaker *by O***E on December 30, 2025* Impressed by the speaker, I measured it down to 40 Hz inroom, but crossed it over at 80 Hz to offload the reciever. If you have a subwoofer and a reciever that does level calibration and room correction, I would consider crossing at 80 Hz. If you have a proper amplifier for the speaker, you could go lower, but I run it off a reciever. Vocals are clear, I got high output and crisp output. You can play loud with it without it feeling like it makes your ears "tired", which I feel for instance Klipsch can become. I would say that it is a good looking speaker too. Just waiting now for the RB42s for a 7.1 setup. Im really happy with the speaker overall, just a bit jealous of people in the USA dont have to pay 25% VAT on this like we have to in Norway. ## Frequently Bought Together - Micca 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 - Micca COVO-S 2-Way Passive Bookshelf Speakers, Amplifier Required, Not for Turntable, 3-Inch Woofer, 0.75-Inch Tweeter, Wall Mountable, Pair, Black - Amazon Basics 16-Gauge Speaker Wire Cable, 100 feet, Bronze --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/160189989-micca-rb42-c-premium-center-channel-bookshelf-speaker-with-dual](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/160189989-micca-rb42-c-premium-center-channel-bookshelf-speaker-with-dual) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-06-06*