When I first started using HDTracks a year or so ago, I bought several (6-8) albums on both 24/96 and 24/192 to do comparisons.
On my system, in my room and with my ears, the 24/192 seems to suck the "life" (air) out of the music. Very sterile sounding. The 24/96 is a little better than regular redbook CDs, but not by a huge margin, which really surprised me. I am using an Olive 04HD into an Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC.
Of course, this is what I hear and I've read that others have the same perception and others think I'm crazy, (which I probably am), so YMMV.
On my system, in my room and with my ears, the 24/192 seems to suck the "life" (air) out of the music. Very sterile sounding. The 24/96 is a little better than regular redbook CDs, but not by a huge margin, which really surprised me. I am using an Olive 04HD into an Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC.
Of course, this is what I hear and I've read that others have the same perception and others think I'm crazy, (which I probably am), so YMMV.