Any respectable audiophile speaker should be flat to 70Hz or thereabouts, so a subwoofer can be cut in below that. Then, when the music has no signal for the subwoofer, and lots of music does not, just turn the SW amp off and save electricity. Also, if there really is no music signal down there, the high end speakers will sound better with the 70 Hz "rumble filter" taking out the rumble of air conditioning in the recording studio.
By the way, one cannot "always add bass". I have found that when Magneplanar speakers begin their LF rolloff, no amount of boost using an equalizer has any effect. With Maggies, if you want solid LF a SW is manditory.
By the way, one cannot "always add bass". I have found that when Magneplanar speakers begin their LF rolloff, no amount of boost using an equalizer has any effect. With Maggies, if you want solid LF a SW is manditory.