Comment by rdtsc

> it's always good to have a little wiggle room

48kHz already has enough 'wiggle room'. How many people do you personally know that can hear a 24kHz sine tone?

> more granular timing for the start and stop of transients. ... it's something I don't see mentioned often.

Probably because it doesn't make sense. Human ears cannot hear frequencies about 24kHz and Nyquist tells us that 48kHz is enough to completely capture all the detail of a signal at that frequency and below.