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Unless you're working with the best mastering engineers, or ones you know you can trust, I'd say get the recording sounding as much like you want it except for volume. Just crank the monitors if you want to hear it loud.
There are a lot of wanna-be mastering whatevers out there who will make your recordings sound like nobody wants to hear them. Even where reputable mastering houses are involved you may not get what you want, or what the client wants.
As an example, I recently did a hip-hop recording that went out for mastering twice, both unsatisfactory. They ended up coming back to me to get commercial levels, using only an Oxford Limiter, and everyone liked it better than the mastered versions.
I leave 3-6dB headroom on all of my mixes.
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