@lanodan @volpeon ok so...

There are many reasons to want better than CD. First, if you're talking about ripping real physical CDs (nuts!), quality of those rips varies wildly. So just looking for higher res files will save you from awful experience of listening to CD read errors (happened to me a few times).

Then there is the fact that LOUDNESS WARS were a thing, and many CDs (nuts!) suffer from that. Avoiding CD rips or CD quality rips can also save you from this.

That last part is also the reason why many buy vinyl instead of physical CDs when preferring physical media.

Also, there is this special kind of schizophrenics who just encode various shit into upper frequencies for lulz. If you know Aphex Twin, he's among them. This is the real sonogram of a real Aphex Twin track.