Sometimes even we whistle-and-bell-happy lot wearing of the bells and the whistles, and just want a decent bit of kit that does a job well. So today we like the cut of Yamaha’s jib, in the no-nonsense shape of their M170B CD/DAB receiver.
With an eardrum-favouring 50 watts of power, the M170B’s set up with 10 DAB stations and 30 AM/FM, and has a nice multi-jog dial for those times when you absolutely positively have to… multi-jog. There’s a subwoofer out, and a spiffy aluminium front panel and volume control. You also get a two-way bass reflex speaker system, an 11cm woofer and 2.5cm dome tweeter.
It’s all wrapped in piano-grade gloss, ripe for incurring your wrath when your silly friends go and prod it. There’s just no need, is there? People whose parents never taught them to look and not touch. We’re besieged with them.
