Ok, first of all:
I heard that HANDs production sucked long before I'd even heard of this "loudness war".

Second: Ok, so wiki's not 100% correct all the time, but you can't deny this war. We're a lot of people who hears it on diffrent albums.
No matter what wiki says, people can still hear...
Paul McCartneys - Memory Almost Full and Duffys Rockferry are famous for their crap sound! So I'm not bringing a selfmade theory here.