The
idea of automatic room EQ is convincing to a person like myself who would just like to get it done and forget about it.
A few months ago I bit the bullet and bought xt32 amp (Denon 4700) for my 2.1 setup, the amp cost about the same as the rest of the setup. Alas, it didn't solve my problems automatically. I almost left it at that because the sound was not bad at all, but somehow it just kept bothering me. I then proceeded to upgrade the speakers, upgrade the sub, getting another sub, damping feet for the subs, getting some acoustics panels and trying numerous placements for the subs and speakers. I even bought the MultiEq-X windows app for maximum tweaking. All the time checking results with REW of course. In the end I'm finally happy with the result (although the price of the setup is 6x the original...)
The thing is that when all is said and done, the only EQ I have left is what xt32 does automatically from 400Hz down and even then I suspect the only really audible problem is huge peak below 35-40Hz.