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DSP works better at a higher sample rates, for obvious reasons, so in a music studio higher is better. Music software will often apply 4x or more oversampling when run at 44.1k which is degrading in the time domain even if the result is better than no oversampling, so recording at high rates avoids that.

Using it as a consumer is pointless, you cant hear those frequencies at all. Adults typically cant even hear up to nyqust at 44.1k. If youre a big music fan youve probably ruined your ears so good luck hearing anything above like 15k tbh.

16 bit was a compromise to do with wanting to keep CDs from being the size of dinner plates, 24 bit is legitimately better, but you're not going to notice with typical music.