Things Fall Apart was mastered before the "Loudness War" peaked in the mid-2000s. It has dynamic range. When you listen to a 320kbps MP3 of this album on an older iPod or a dedicated DAC, you are hearing a file encoded with the LAME encoder (version 3.92 or similar), which had a notoriously "musical" sound. Many audiophiles argue that a well-encoded MP3 at 320kbps is transparent (indistinguishable from CD to the human ear), whereas modern streaming masters are often brick-walled (compressed for volume).
' 1999 landmark album Things Fall Apart , a 320 kbps (kilobits per second) MP3 download—often distributed in the roots things fall apart rar 320 better