Actually, no, I do not agree that anyone who uses nearfield monitors is a fraud. For recording vocal tracks and a bunch of different closely mic'd instruments, nearfield monitoring can have a legitimate use in a studio. Personally, I happen to prefer live to two-track recording, but most recordings aren't made that way, they're built up from a bunch of individual tracks, and for that stuff some purist monitoring system could be seen as overkill. I know some engineers who use nearfield monitors and they claim they can hear more detail with them, that they normally only get with headphones, and they hate headphones. They're listening for extraneous noises, and they don't want to listen at 100db either, like some pop engineers do.