Was "The Other Side Of The Mirror" hindered by bad production?

[The Juggler]

I was just listening to Book Of Miracles today, and I love it. The crisp sounding production, the little intricate details that make it really fresh and warm sounding.

In my opinion, none of that is present in Juliet - it suffers from a bad production.

I feel that is a common problem on TOSOTM album. Some people are really into the full on 80's production which is fair, but I think it really makes the album worse.

When you read the lyrics of the songs from the album, it contains some of Stevie's best lyrics. Songs like Alice & Doing The Best That I Can are some of the best lyrics she ever wrote. But it's all clouded over by muddy and bombastic production.

Does anyone else feel this way? The album's production is very stale for me. Not just because it's from 1989, I like a lot of 80's music, but I feel Rupert Hine got it really wrong here and some of Stevie's best work has been lost behind poor production choices, namely Alice, Doing The Best That I Can, I Still Miss Someone, Juliet etc.

Anyone else agree?