Help:bought Audiophile 2496;sounds just like my SB Live!

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I just bought the M-Audio Audiophile 2496, hoping to get better sound
than my Sound Blaster Live. Audiophile is 24 bit, 96 khz. SB is 16
bit, 44.1 khz. In Audobe Audition, I try recording the exact same
thing (a short piano piece) on each card for a back-to-back
comparison, but both recordings sound the same. I have a basic
understanding of bit depth and sample rate, but I don't know how the
bit depth and sample rate of my sound card relates to the BD and SR
that I set my recording session to, and what occurs if I then convert
the BD and SR. So could it have something to do with those settings?
Please let me know, in plain English, when I will be able to hear the
difference between different BD's and SR's, and between these two
sound cards. So much rave about the Audiphile cards, and negativity
towards Sound Blaster, and I can't hear the difference!