Ethan Walker

Yes, tow-behind lawn aerators work, and the best tow behind lawn aerators pull cores three inches deep with a weight tray you load yourself. Our pick for most homeowners is the Agri-Fab 48-Inch Tow-Behind Plug Aerator with 32 galvanized knives and a 175 lb tray, because it has the deepest rated penetration in the group … Read more

If your lawn is hard, thin and patchy no matter what you do, the problem is almost never fertilizer. It is compaction, and the tool that fixes it is a plug aerator, also called a core aerator. A plug aerator drives hollow, spoon-shaped steel tines into the ground and lifts out short cylinders of soil, … Read more

Add a basketball hoop to a trampoline and the jumping stops being background noise and becomes the game. Kids stop bouncing for the sake of bouncing and start chasing a shot, then a rebound, then a dunk they can almost land. That is why the best trampoline basketball hoops for kids rank so high with … Read more

A climbing dome is a geodesic half-sphere play structure that children climb up and over using molded rock-climbing grips. It is usually built from powder-coated or hot-dip galvanized steel, sometimes from UV-protected plastic, measures 6 to 10 feet across, and carries a published load rating from 150 to 1000 pounds. Because it stands on its … Read more

A toddler seesaw is a low-to-the-ground rocking board, rocker, or spinning swivel ride built for children from about 18 months to 5 years, usually with a 50 to 100 pound per-seat weight limit and easy-grip handles sized for small hands. After comparing ten of the most popular teeter totter for toddlers designs, the Simplay3 Up … Read more

A microphone stand has one job, and it is a strange one: to do absolutely nothing. It has to hold a heavy capsule at the same angle for the length of a take, absorb the vibration of a footstep, and never creak when someone leans on the desk. Get that wrong and a clean vocal … Read more

For most condenser microphones, the best pop filter is a louvered metal screen with a 4 to 6 inch diameter on a long gooseneck. Metal deflects the plosive burst downward instead of absorbing it, so it costs almost nothing in high end. The Rode WS2 is the pick for Rode condensers, and the Stedman Proscreen … Read more

Pads change the whole feel of making a beat. Instead of drawing in notes with a mouse, you hit a surface and hear the sound come back a few milliseconds later, and that feedback loop makes rhythm decisions much faster. We spent weeks with the hardware in this guide, testing pad response, knob feel and … Read more

Most speakers that look good on a spec sheet fall apart the moment a real mobile DJ gig starts. That is because a mobile-event rig has to do three things at once: get carried through a venue door, run for a full night of ceremony and reception audio, and still push enough volume for a … Read more

A dropped controller does not just crack a screen. It bends faders, shears encoder knobs and warps the chassis under the jog wheels, and none of that is cheap to put right. If you move a DJ controller out of a permanent booth at all, the case is not an accessory. It is the cheapest … Read more