I don't think it is fair to compare them, Chet. One can find transcendence with a certain partner, when everything just "clicks", much in the same way that we've all described the feeling of "clicking" when singing or playing.

One can also have that feeling with a partner without ever being physical. Rather than compare or be in a situation of "either/or", I woudl say, from my experience, that the feeling we are all talking about can happen in other situations, with music or without. The contaxt here, of course, has much more of an emphasis on music than might be found elsewhere.

Now, having pontificated too much, I have to say, I want both! At the same time!**BIG GRIN**

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