AKA "Gateway Drug"
Could be, though I really haven't encountered a life altering experience listening via the two DACs I have. Could be equipment limitations, of course, but I'm hard pressed to tell the differences between the 16/44 (or cd) recordings vs the 24/96. I'm open to be proven wrong, though! My comparisons so far have been Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus (HD tracks vs cd), Patricia Barber's Verse (same), and a couple years' worth of Linn's free Christmas downloads (16/44 vs 24/96 or higher).