I'm clearly not qualified in biology and DSP to argue with the 24/192 argument (although i am one of those guys that will swear that it definitely sounds better, having tried one), but here's another thing to consider :
- Since the 2000's the general trend with music has been to compress audio as much as possible to send it through the pipe and store it everywhere, assuming availability was a superior concern than quality.
Therefore, the audio industry in general has been totally collapsing, in favor of the network provider business and now cloud storage one.
- We audiophile, have been thus pushed during the last decade to listen to shite mp3 on our phones, to get poor audio resolution on our cable TV, and often cry at those "boom bass" headphones and speakers advertised as being the bests.
In this context, this new trend to high fidelity audio for everyone is simply a miracle. Maybe we will finally see lossless audio everywhere. Maybe we will get 4 or 5 channels audio file formats (i have fond memories of a choir song demo included with my soundblaster audigy which put you in the middle of the choir). Maybe all of this just means the world is ready to jump to high-res audio hardware before 4K video becomes mainstream...
- Since the 2000's the general trend with music has been to compress audio as much as possible to send it through the pipe and store it everywhere, assuming availability was a superior concern than quality.
Therefore, the audio industry in general has been totally collapsing, in favor of the network provider business and now cloud storage one.
- We audiophile, have been thus pushed during the last decade to listen to shite mp3 on our phones, to get poor audio resolution on our cable TV, and often cry at those "boom bass" headphones and speakers advertised as being the bests.
In this context, this new trend to high fidelity audio for everyone is simply a miracle. Maybe we will finally see lossless audio everywhere. Maybe we will get 4 or 5 channels audio file formats (i have fond memories of a choir song demo included with my soundblaster audigy which put you in the middle of the choir). Maybe all of this just means the world is ready to jump to high-res audio hardware before 4K video becomes mainstream...