->My impression is that the more maths an audio professional knows, the more sure the audio professional is that higher sampling rates is a bad thing. (unless you are recording sounds that is later going to be downsampled a lot of course) Perhaps its impossible for us non-skilled-mathematicians to understand properly why 96 kHz is a bad thing...<- One thing 96K provides is plenty of headroom for aliasing if you're doing some kind of novel synthesis technique that tends to generate tons of high partials... the 24 bits are nice, too.