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The ultimate system evaluation disc? John Atkinson has been busy putting together Editor's Choice: Stereophile's Sampler & Test CD. JA chooses his favorite Stereophile recordings from the past 10 years and throws in a few test tones.

With the June issue, a new column is born! Kal Rubinson goes multichannel audio with "Music in the Round #1. " As KR explains, "Multichannel music is the future. I intend to preach that to Stereophile readers who believe it and to convert the obstinate objectors."

Also from the June issue we have Art Dudley's "Listening #6," wherein AD grapples with tone controls, the mono switch, and choosing ten discs to stuff in his emergency "Road Box."

Is it the classic example of putting your microphone where your mouth is or is there something else behind Why Stereophile Makes Recordings? Wes Phillips points out that "When you think about it, what's surprising is not that we produce recordings, but that we are the only audio magazine that does so."

Finally, the next installment in our "Recording of the Month" series for the online archives: Recording of January 1995: Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore. Richard Lehnert points out that "Pinafore is perhaps the silliest of all G&S operettas. It's also the freshest, the most sprightly, the most irrepressibly melodic."