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>It would cause a slight increase in noise - either quantization noise or
>dither noise if dithered.  Point is, the mastering engineer is further
>processing the signal so why do it.


If a signal were maxed out...and a mastering engineer were going to EQ 
and send it over the top, why can't he simply turn the signal down before 
it hits the EQ? There's a thing called a 'fader' that can be set 
pre-send, and these mastering engineers are surely clever fellows.