Klipsch’s Heritage-inspired tabletop speakers, side by side. Here is The One Plus alongside the larger, turntable-ready The Three Plus, showing what your money buys.

The One Plus is Klipsch’s compact tabletop speaker, a single unit that brings the company’s Heritage design language and horn-derived clarity to a shelf, a desk or a bedside. It is not a pair of speakers but a self-contained 2.1 stereo system, biamplified and tuned by Klipsch’s own acousticians, in a real wood veneer cabinet with tactile switches and knobs that nod to Paul W. Klipsch’s classic designs. It streams over Bluetooth, takes a wired source over its analogue input, and can be grouped with other Klipsch tabletop speakers around the home. For a stylish, room-filling second system it needs nothing more than power and a source.

Brief product overview

A one-piece 2.1 tabletop speaker system with two 2.25-inch full-range drivers and a 4.5-inch high-excursion woofer, biamplified for 60 watts total, in a bass-reflex real-wood-veneer cabinet measuring around 12.5 inches wide. Sources are Bluetooth 5.3, with up to 40 feet of range, a USB-C input that also offers reverse charging for a phone, and a 3.5mm analogue aux input; there is no phono input or network streaming. The Klipsch Connect app adds adjustable EQ, saved presets and firmware updates, and Broadcast Mode wirelessly links ten or more The One Plus or Three Plus speakers into a multi-room system. Finishes are walnut and ebony real wood veneer, with low-profile tactile controls on top. It is Heritage-inspired in look and hand-tuned in sound.

How it sounds

The One Plus punches well above its size, the biamplified 2.1 configuration and dedicated woofer producing bass and clarity that surprise for something sitting on a side table, with the crisp, lively character Klipsch is known for. Its two full-range drivers throw a wider stereo image than a single-box speaker has any right to, and the app’s EQ lets you tune it to the room and to taste. It is genuinely loud enough to fill a bedroom or home office without distortion at sensible levels, though in a large open-plan space it shows its limits, particularly in the bass, so it is best thought of as a small-to-medium-room speaker. Within that brief it is a polished, characterful performer.

What we’d partner it with

The One Plus is a self-contained system, so it needs only a source. Over Bluetooth it streams directly from a phone, tablet or computer, but for proper network streaming, access to Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, internet radio and multi-room control, the WiiM Mini is an ideal tiny partner: it streams over Wi-Fi and connects to The One Plus through its 3.5mm analogue input, adding the network audio the speaker does not have built in for very little outlay.

To add vinyl, note The One Plus has no phono input, so the turntable must supply its own phono stage. The Pro-Ject T1 EVO Phono is the version to choose for exactly this reason: it has a switchable phono stage built into the turntable, so it outputs a line-level signal straight into The One Plus’s aux input, with no separate phono preamp required. The base T1 EVO, which has no built-in stage, would not work here, so it is the Phono version that makes this pairing possible.

On cabling, a 3.5mm connection carries both the WiiM Mini and the turntable into the aux input; AudioQuest and Chord are the cable brands we stock.

Who shouldn’t buy it

If you want a turntable-ready tabletop speaker with a proper phono input built in, larger drivers and more power, The Three Plus is the model designed for exactly that. If you want a true stereo pair with separate left and right speakers, a pair of powered bookshelf speakers such as The Fives II will image far more widely. And if you need to fill a large open-plan room, The One Plus is a small-room speaker, so consider stepping up in size.

The One Plus needs only a mains supply and a spot on a shelf, desk or table. Set it up and tune the EQ through the Klipsch Connect app, and pair a phone directly over Bluetooth for casual listening. For streaming, connect the WiiM Mini to the 3.5mm aux input and control it from the WiiM app. For vinyl, connect the T1 EVO Phono to the aux input with its built-in phono stage switched on, since The One Plus has no phono input of its own; use a 3.5mm-to-RCA cable for the connection. Source selection cycles through Bluetooth, USB-C and aux on the rear button. Broadcast Mode can link it wirelessly to other Klipsch tabletop speakers around the home.