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192 kHz for music.
The CD was the worst thing to happen in the history of audio. 44 (or 48) kHz is awful, and it is still prevalent. It would be better to wait a few more years and have better quality.
Why? What reason could there possibly be to store frequencies as high as 96 kHz? The limit of human hearing is 20 kHz, hence why 44.1 and 48 kHz sample rates are used
because if you use a 40 kHz signal to "draw" a 10 kHz wave, the wave will have only four "pixels", so all the high frequencies have very low fidelity
As long as the audio frequency is less than half the sample rate, it is a mathematical function with only one (exact) wave that is able to fit all 4 points, so it is perfectly reconstructed. This video provides a great visualization of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM