What hi res file is better 96/24 or 192/16 ?

I can’t comment on what you hear and what the difference is on what I can hear. I only know that every person is different and what they can hear is different too. Just because I can very much tell the difference on my system with 192K and 320K MP3’s and then either of those to a CD and then CD to Hi rez (most of the time). BUT not the difference between the 2 high res formats, that doesn’t make me assume that there is no real difference at all or that is the limit on what others can hear either. We are all different hearing just like eye sight. But I can even tell when MP3’s are playing on my little Bose outside portable blue-tooth speaker... :)
I am not talking about "Opening up the transparency and total colorization" when adding little plastic isolators to my speakers interconnects to keep them off the ground. LOL
I am stopping now, I appreciate everyone’s input and I feel kind of stupid not thinking of "listening" to see if I could actually hear the difference. I am glad I could buy just one track of each to see if I could hear a difference or not.
This also made me think of one other thing. I can only unfold MQA to 96/24 and not 192/24 with my current set up. I was starting to obsess about my system not being able to unfold it all the way. looking into hardware upgrades. Now I won’t have to worry about it anymore!! Saved me some $$$ and tap dance explaining to the wife... :)
Thanks again all

@phil9624, Good for you that you can hear a night and day difference between standard and hi-res.

It’s a pity you can no longer enjoy redbook CDs although I agree that many of the MFSL / SHM were no improvement on the original CD transfers (dynamically compressed / poor mastering / dubious tape selections/ etc). It’s particularly galling that the Beatles catalogue is still best represented on vinyl (or even better reel to reel if you ever see one!). It’s still a contentious issue to say what the best digital transfer of the Beatles is. I’d go with the 2O14 US box, but it’s not complete of course.

It’s a pity you find it frustrating that more people don’t follow your lead but I think it’s understandable that people are not so keen to try Hi-Res downloads. Not only because of the high cost but also because many have already made the journey from vinyl to CD (sometimes back again if they too found CD too fatiguing), and now again to downloads may well be a journey too far and too expensive, possibly in the wrong direction.

Perhaps some of us are just being a little bit cynical about how the music business operates but if it works for you, good on you.

As for the cable thread, I'm glad you checked it out. It's a hoot!