In general, I think the whole hi-rez thing is a red herring. Much more important is quality mastering and getting rid of the fucking loudness wars shit. At this point musicians and semi-pro recordists are so bombarded with shit recordings that they have no idea what really good sound sounds like. The art of recording, mixing, and mastering needs some fucking heros to follow. I'm fucking fed up with semi-talented people being enamored with the idea that putting artificial vinyl surface noise in the background of their mix and totally cheapening their semi-interesting music.
Producers need to pull their head out of their ass and artfully guide recording engineers before 24/96 makes any meaningful difference.
Posted while happily exploring 320kBs tracks on MOG.