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So glad I put my sub back into my system. Hopefully won't need it with the new cabs but we'll see.
I've spent so long tuning mine, level especially. What works for Chet Baker is mental for Blood Orange. For the sake of my neighbours I just can't listen to hip hop, but that's ok, I don't anyway.
Depending on how you're doing the crossover, you could bump the bass up on the mains to allow you to set the xover point lower.
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I bought a subwoofer in the end, a REL T5. Setting it up is quite a thing, all advice seems to be that you turn it down until you don't really notice it but when you suddenly have bass that was never there before I found myself turning it down to the point where if I turned it off I couldn't notice the difference. I've moved it all over the room, messed with the crossover and eventually went home quite frustrated.
Coming in this morning with the bass sound and feel no longer being completely new I've found a point where I'm happy with it. Corner placement is best, crossover turned up to just before the point where the mid bass starts to boost as it doubles up with the speakers' output, and level set just so. Making its position undetectable doesn't seem like an option given that its playing above 100hz into directional frequencies (the main speakers really don't dig deep at all), but its discreet and has really added a whole lot to my sound. The vibration across the floor and through the chair makes me no longer wish to crank the overall volume up to silly levels.