Serus Danny, DANKE für Deinen interessanten Bericht und Deine Offenheit ! Alles Gute für die Zukunft. Ich freue mich auf deine kommenden Musikgeschichten! Liebe Grüße GEORG

Danny welcome back your new place is gonna be outstanding the space looks perfect. Can’t wait to see it when it’s complete. Maine’s countryside looks cozy your enthusiasm and knowledge is what keeps me watching your videos .Danny have a wonderful rest of the week.

Hi Danny! Can’t wait to see your listening room builds. Thx for sharing your journey to Hungary and about your mother. My mom has Alzheimer’s. Luckily we found a good memory care home. So so freakin hard.

Welcome back to NA . Best of luck sir. I’m sure when your settled in and back “online” you’ll look back and appreciate the adventure. 😊

Welcome Home! Glad to have you back Danny.

Thank you for this wonderful update, Danny! I am very happy you and Cathy are back safely in the USA!

Congrats on everything now and everything in front of you. I have always been a big fan and cant wait until you do your magic to this incredible spot.

Welcome back to the US. You would have been welcomed in the great state of Kentucky but it's Maine's gain. ♥️🤗 The music room is going to be terrific. I can't wait to see how it turns out. While it's disappointing that your move didn't work out, we are always richer for our experiences. We are all glad to have you and your family (dogs included) back here to the US. 🇺🇲 Take care.

Maxine is beautiful. The house looks gorgeous. Great update. You seem at peace now. If you never try, you never know. Wishing you every Success.

All the best to you Danny. ❤ - Chef Duane

So good to see you back! Thank you for the update. Your videos always feel more like a personal conversation than a video for the masses. I appreciate that. I look forward to the next step in the journey.

The last stop on our Danube cruise was Budapest. We explored the lovely city where English was an option due to the local tourist commerce. Three blocks away from city center was a different story and all the hand gestures in the world would not render me comprehensible. I understand your disappointment as the physical environment is stunning. I don't conflate a population with their government as I find that people are basically all the same in navigating their life. Orban worries me. I'm sorry your adventure didn't pan out. If a Hungarian showed up on my doorstep seeking information , I would be at a loss. One can only do so much to assimilate. Good luck to you going forward and congratulations on giving it a go.

Loved hearing the journey. Did you ever say that you’re in Maine? It’ll be interesting to watch the progression of your rooms, especially the upstairs. However I’m always partial to living spaces where we can live love and enjoy music with friends and fam. Good luck Danny. ✌🏻

Hiya Danny, such a frank and honest video. Possibly a cathartic experiemce in setting out your thoughts. A huge move for you and Cathy. So much change comes with so, so much pain. Its inevitable. Sending peace and love from the UK.

Thanks for sharing the details of your experience.. work and life is truly a balancing act whether there's balance between them or not. Congrats on the new place and the paintjob!

Maxine does seem to suit you. Beautiful house with wonderful potential. You seem at peace. Wishing you every Success.

Great to hear from you Danny, enjoyed the in depth journey you’ve been on!!

Awesome, honest story. Totally support you, man! That room is gonna be amazing.

Wow, what a journey, my friend. Well I’m glad to see you are back in the USA and getting settled. Let me say your house is gorgeous. I can’t wait to see your finished listening room. Also glad to hear your mom is safe. God bless and keep spinning records..

Good video Danny! Always value your opinion! Looking forward to future videos and your thoughts on vinyl!

Wonderful retrospective of your past couple of years. I enjoyed this much more than the countless audio reviews on KZfaq. Your perspective about moving to another country with the inherent difficulties involved, was extremely illuminating. It took guts and a lot of money to do what you did but, as you say, sometimes one needs to take risks. Looking forward to your future adventures on this channel.

Thanks for updating us and sharing your story. Have always enjoyed your videos and reviews and look forward to future videos. Sorry about your mom. My mom also suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s and I feel for you.

Welcome Home. Glad you are back. Much blessings to you and your family. Hell it’s been a journey that all of us who are subscribed went on along with you. New home, new beginnings. Cheers

Danny - good luck. Life never lets up really. Plus, how am I not surprised you’re a fountain pen geek too !!

My dads family is from Sopron. We went to visit all his cousins back about 20 years ago and the language challenges were a huge thing. We flew to Graz, where 80% of the folks spoke English, then drove to Sopron where almost no one spoke English except two of our Hungarian relatives. And Hungarian words are very hard to read. Székesfehérvár...say that three time fast LOL.

Great to hear from you again! Sorry for all your troubles, but hey, you said it, everything happens for a reason! ;)). Btw that room looks awesome. That's a man cave right there!

Great to have you back. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store.

Congrats Danny on that pretty much monumental feat you've achieved ✌✌

Hi Danny! All the best wishes from Germany. I hope you've found the right place for you and your family. looking forward to the future content. Bye the way - great cinematographic scenes in the beginning of your video.🖐

Danny, I hope the 2nd floor is reinforced and can support all of the weight of your gear and records!!!

HI Danny! I just discovered your channel and decided to subscribe.. looking forward seeing more of your videos! What a great story! I also moved my record collection from Sweden to Italy where I live now..l wish you all the best in the US!

Perfect house !

Welcome back!🎉🎉🎉

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Welcome back, tuff story there, always hard when English is not spoken, been in a few countrys where the language battle have been a pain, anyway, looking forward to the upcoming content. Cheers

Best wishes for you and your family during this phase. Hope your mother gets excellent care 🙏. Greg

Great to see you back Danny. What a rollercoaster ride. I hope your Mum will get the care and help she needs and you get back on solid ground knowing she's being taken care of.Not easy when they're are so far away. Take your time, get your feet on soid ground. All the best from here in the UK.

Good to have you back

Great to see you back

I appreciate your deep knowledge of music.

Love this Danny. Great update. Exciting things coming and looking forward to all your content. Nice fancy pen by the way ha… no cup holders on it tho. 😉

Good to have you back Danny… welcome home, again…. I’ll be here waiting…. Doing exactly the same for my mother in law, not easy at all….

DK, welcome back! I'm 2nd generation American, my parent's are from the old world. I'm well-travelled too. that said, after the 2nd or 3rd week of being away I cant wait to get back to the US. I couldn't imagine 2-3 mos. nevermind 2-3 yrs! "Stability" and "predictability" are two attributes that puts my mind at ease , thats what you get in the US.

Am end to the epic journey is in sight and you've found your new place at last. It might be a different experience to what you wanted, but at least you can get on with doing what you want to be doing; which is what counts! Anyway, enough of me rambling on, glad to see you are okay. Looking forward to more content soon.💿

Great video Danny. I live in Europe, in Ireland. Hungary are more and more becoming an outlier in the EU for a number of reasons, so I really understand the points you made. Anyway, looking forward to seeing some new videos.

Hi Danny, wat a story, however completely understand, good move mate! Pity you didnt vist WLM manufactury:-( Also, and I know its doesnt matter, but you should try The Netherlands as location. Whichever way, good to see you back!

Hey Danny, this was special - looking forward to following your adventures and Rebecca and I will shoot you a DM when we're out in September. Sorry to hear about your Mom and best wishes for her situation. I worked in Europe + one year in South Africa back in the late 90s-oughts but was lucky to be in Cities/Regions where English was pretty well spoken and the projects I worked on had English as the official "project language". Anyway, stints in Munich, Lausanne, Dusseldorf, and Marbella that I'll always remember fondly. I did work on a 2-week project bid out of the Hilton on the riverfront in Budapest and loved the city but remember it wasn't as easy to communicate there. Prost my friend!

Glad to hear you ok mate.

Glad you guys are back , it's Uncle Alan

Welcome back to the states! I'll be watching! I'm looking forward to seeing the actual build of the upstairs room! I'm guessing the Wilson speakers will stay downstairs?!

Glad to hear you're getting settled in up in the woods up there in lower Canada. For whatever reason I thought you spoke several languages so I would have thought one of them would be similar to Hungarian but apparently not so. After a pickup hockey game once two guys were chatting and I asked if they were speaking Finnish but they were Estonian (!) and apparently the only language similar to Estonian is Finnish. Languages, yo. If you don't mind me asking, how were the pups with the return trip? Were they able to travel in the airplane cabin, or did they have to go as cargo? Anyway, glad you're happy, that's the bottom line. Have a blast in the new digs. Cheers, Tom

Danny, you were a fish out of the water over there, man! Thankfully, you had the means to return! I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. Hopefully, she's comfortable and doing fine! Overall, Welcome back!👏

He’s back!

Without hifi since February 2022?!? No peace in the same period in the Ukraine! Then I sincerely hope that both grievances will be resolved as soon as possible. All the best to you, Cathy and your mother. Greetings from Berlin

Danny... I am relatively new to your channel. I am up to about 50 videos on mine and am anxiously awaiting you getting back to "normal"*what ever that is. We too relocated frim the Seattle Area to quite Eastern Tennessee looking out at the Smoky Mountains, No we didn't traverse the ocean twice with records, but once to here was enough. I wish you the beat of luck. I am sure that when I get thig settles here and you there we'll meet online with with the Bums or Rachel etc. Regards, Jack

I can most certainly relate… When I finished up high school, not knowing what to do and wanting a gap year, I tried too find a job. Found that very hard; one thing led to another; I found myself flying from Brisbane Australia to Paris where I met up with my long term pen friend Anna. I had been writing to Anna since a school project in grade 5. It was at a time when we started with pen and paper and a stamp through to the beginnings of email. Anna was from Częstochowa in Poland. She could speak multiple languages. What was supposed to be a short holiday and hopefully a job in London at the end, turned into a six year romance sprawled across Europe. The only reason I returned to Australia was because I could no longer extend my visa’s. Besides I needed to get back and get my butt to Uni. Anna wanted to go to Uni as well and become an English teacher. Which she did. Very fond memories of Europe and have since been back many times. Anna is now married with three kids and lives in Edinburgh. We keep in close contact. I ended up working in international banking and moved between Singapore, Hong Kong and The Middle East. When Covid hit we were lucky to be back in Australia. I ended up leaving employment, have become a recluse and have bought a 900 acre farm in southern Tasmania by the sea. When I saw the opening of your video… the home we are building is very similar in style. Love it..! Looking forward to what you are bringing going forward.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Really looking forward to your videos on your listening room build out and equipment setup. First floor has great potential with high ceilings and maybe some room treatment. Love the new home. Looks like a few acres. She Shack on the horizon for Kathy?

As you implied Danny, moving countries is a young man's game. I know, because I did it too late. But not making an effort to integrate & expecting them to bend over backwards for you is disrespectful. Hope you can put this behind you & I look forward to you continuing to provide excellent content, when you are up & running again...

Woo!

I have it from a reliable source that you are changing the subject matter if your channel to Cheesesteaks.

Mate, sounds like a pretty turbulent time, the Ukraine issue being that close would have weighed on my mind incessantly. I worked in Slovakia for a year, loved the people but yeah, the language is challenging, through my whole time I probably picked up a handful of daily sentences, and that was from someone who spoke 5 languages (all European). The new place looks stunning, beautifully spacious, nice and light. I’m so sorry to hear about your Mother, my Mum has just started showing some symptoms also. I wish your family happiness back in the states, you’re home man, rest a little. Really looking forward to the upcoming content.

Hi Danny! Glad that you are back. I experienced it myself, sometimes one has to take a big detour to get to the right next chapter of life, and I hope it will work for you as well. Hungary? Even for me as a German, a no go. They still support an extreme nationalistic government which is anti-European and discriminating and, generally , they are so locked up in their mindsets that I doubt they will develop to into a modern Western democratic society any further. Imo, once they were one of the freer more open states in the communists‘‘ Eastern block but they are now closer to the Soviet Union than they ever were. It is a real pity! Good luck in getting your feet on the new ground and with your new endeavors.

You must learn the language when anyone decides to move to a foreign country and plans an extended stay there. I am glad you are back. All the best.

I was surprised it took you 20 mn to get to the political situation and mindset of Hungary. Simply because of that, it would have been the very last country I would have moved to in Europe. It is scary. ANd it is sad, since Hungary is probably my favorite country with Romania for 20th century music. Sorry to hear about your mom.

Great video. What made y’all choose Maine? Maybe I missed it.

Danny: Welcome back!! Congratulations on your new home in Maine. Living in Massachusetts, I visit often and it is a beautiful state. My sympathies regarding your mom. my family has had to deal with that with several family members. It sounds like you have her set up to receive the kind of care she will need. Best of luck with that. Two comments on your video. 1) The first part of the video where you were doing voice over background music was rather difficult to understand. You voice was often drowned out by the music. I would suggest playing with the levels in the future to make your voice a bit more prominent relative to the music. 2) As a retired architect, several potential red flags jumped out at me when you showed the space on the second and described your intentions. Unless the trusses in that house were specifically designed for you for your intended use I would contact a structural engineer immediately, before you start closing things in. Trusses have the ability to span long distances using very light members often 2x4’s or 2x6’s. They are also very limited in the kinds of loads you can put on the members and where you can place the loads. I am assuming those trusses were designed for a normal floor loading for a bedroom or similar space. Depending on the type of equipment you are planning to use up there and how heavy it is, you may be overloading the bottom chord of those trusses. The bottom chord of that truss is also helping support the roof load. As you can imagine the snow load in Maine can be substantial. A structural engineer will be able to tell you based on the equipment you intend to use and where you will be placing it. Now is the time to check while everything is fairly wide open. There may be a fix for this. The real red flag for me was your idea for the record storage cubbies. IT is a great use of the space I agree. It may be quite problematic due to the dead loaf involved. Again a structural engineer can advise you on the feasibility of doing this . Again there may be something that can be done to accommodate this. Sorry to be the bad news bear, but better to find out now while it is open, than find out later the hard way. Good luck. Jim

Make sure the sidewalls do NOT get too hot for your records. I would not do it unless you are really think it out. Mr. Pete---------> aging hippie

Just upgraded from 003 to W3 😊

THE AFTER ABOUT FIRST 50 SECS OF THIS VIDEO FADE OUT INTO BLACK is UNfortunately one of the common mistakes and UNforced errors by still UNseasoned , or out of season more likely , yet well ''intentioned'' videographers, of course. That been said , heard that your friend Sandalphon Aelways keen and kosher about all that stuff, records collecting , music and babies too, was saying that it happened among other things FOR THE MEMBERS OF THIS CLUB TO ''GROW AND MULTIPLY'' EVEN MORE , IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS, FOR THE GOOD OF ALL YOU LADS FIRST AND ABOVE ALL, FOR YOU STUCK WITH IT AND BY IT (THROUGH THE BAD MOMENTS IN SUCH ENDEAVORS, CONSIDERED VINTAGE AND PASSE BY MANY , JUST LIKE HE HAS) AS YOU SHALL SEE. BETTER TIMES SHINE AND RIDE JUST AHEAD...Shema!!!

Interesting video except where the heck are you doesn’t look like Southern California. Don’t want your address just the region or state.

Hungary is a beautiful country but the politics would keep me away. No English speakers would drive home the nail in the coffin. Too bad it didn't work out but the world is a big place. According to Google about 20% of Hungarians can speak English but of course much of that number could be rudimentary English, not fluent.

Have you been contacted by the CIA yet?

Why do English speaking people think the rest of the world should speak English too? Can they learn another language?