The bitrate have 0 impact on the sound quality. Depending on the file the value can be approximate but when there’s no transcoding it’s irrelevant.
SampleRate and bit per sample have impacts, most device support up to 96Khz without any changes and 24b too. (Again as said only logs can tell what is happening).
And sound better is very subjective, depends on many filters or tweaks to the sound.
Enable autoEQ for your specific headphone model [Wiki] Advanced Equalizer / AutoEQ and you’ll rediscover your music too.