So I shouldn't bother adding anything to the output chain of the mix but just put whatever I would've put there in the master instead? I strongly suspect that is the case and that it has something to do with dithering as well. As far as "letting a 'pro' do it because they have 'experienced and...
Monitors are "flat" speakers, they have no preset eq. What you hear is what you put thru them with your own eqing. Stereo speakers come with predetermined highs, mids and lows.
Everything that I've read (on this site and google) says mastering is for polishing up the track and preparing it for duplication, all of which I understand but I am unable to find anything that pertains to my specific question. It seems to me that everything I would do while mastering is the...