[Federico]

The masses have decided that it's not worth spending the money on
anything with higher quality than CD.


I don't think that's true.
It is only a problem of space (memory) and speed (delivery).

Years ago speed was slow and memory was expensive, so MP3-128Kb/s was ok.
Now we have terabyte big HD and Cable (imagin what will it be in 5 years
from now). So we can start using .wav files-16 bit.
In 5 years we could be exchanging 24bits files 96KHz just like we do now
with MP3.
F.