This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique that is poorly understood by almost all of us. Once again, I hope you find it useful, or that you can ...

Last month’s article in the extrusion basics series, which dealt with screw design, was very popular (more than 3000 page views!), so I thought I would expand on one of the loose ends—the compression ...

Want to know how healthy or unhealthy your engine really is? Get yourself a compression tester and find out. Despite how complex many modern vehicles are, you can do many common repair and maintenance ...