Sorry I am a bit late coming back to this but
In the example you quoted - a small two way with 6.5'' mid bass then no, that will not be necessary at all. :LF power and extension with such a speaker will not be sufficient to excite room modes unless you jammed them in the corners and played them very loud - which you wouldn't as you would then have issues with audible distortion.
I've used such speakers in an all concrete room 7'x10' with no issues whatsoever. (later went up to 4 way towers with twin 8'' drivers, still no problem as in such a small room you can't reach the volume level needed to excite the room nodes).
Owning lots of different speakers and living in lots of different rooms, over many years, you learn what will work and what won't by trial and error. This is how we did it for decades before DRC.
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Yes that is exactly right, if you bought a pair of loudspeakers that had enough bass extension to excite the room the only course of action was to shuffle them backwards and forwards hoping to discover the quarter wave cancellation, if that failed they were sold and a smaller pair acquired .
But now you don’t have to.
Keith