Klipsch The Fives

powered speakers

The Fives arrived for review after most of the others, and directly following the Q Acoustics Q Active 200s. The contrast between those unusual modernist designs and the Klipsch Fives couldn’t be greater. The Fives are lighter, squarer, more wooden – hand-crafted MDF with a walnut veneer or matte black painted finish, and presenting a more traditional fascia, though with that big patented Klipsch Tractrix horn and compression driver dominating the top half where a dome tweeter might more normally sit, and a 114mm (4.5- inch) high-excursion fibre-composite mid/bass cone beneath. One speaker has knobs on the top, and you have to link the other speaker with a four-metre signal cable, since only one speaker is active, the other passive.