What I was trying to get across is: every file has two potential purposes—listening and serving as input for sampling. So, if we care about enabling "remix culture", wouldn't make sense to offer a "24/192 FLAC" option for download, push DVDA over CD, etc., anyway?

I've never seen the hype from artists about 24/192 as being about better listening experience. It's about handing their consumers a better master so as to encourage and enable more of them to be remixers.