This article is formatted weirdly. At one point the author just says "bar chart of..." And there's no chart. There were a lot of what felt like missing graphics but they had descriptions.

Edit: thanks to a reply, seems the images just aren't loading

>Why is this a problem now if it wasn’t in the 90s?

I dont think his answer is correct. Real reason is there was no stupid bitrates and unrealistic bit depths craze back then. /insert mandatory Monty Montgomery from xiph explaining how A/D D/A and hearing works.

>hardware that hit these sample rates and bit depths was mostly used by professionals

professionals used Firewire audio interfaces, USB latency wasnt good enough