Different subwoofer settings for different albums?


So a dealer I know told me that he doesn’t use subwoofers and doesn’t know anyone who does (!) because he finds that every record has different levels of bass and would require a new subwoofer crossover point to properly blend with the main speakers.  Anyone else have this experience?
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You can inform your dealer in 2003 a Digital Drive servo subwoofer was introduced which allowed detailed automatic and manual frequency interaction with a main speaker system. The accompanying six customizable frequency presets may have satisfied his concerns.
By 2011 the software was expanded to a Plus version.

The main speakers are responsible for analog playback to the point where their design begins its low frequency roll off.
At the beginning of the speakers roll off the digital software used by these subwoofers allows the user to begin designing an optimized crossover region using a Frequency Response and Parameters tool that makes multiple adjustments of Individual Parametric Filter EQ, Parametric Filter Frequency and level, Q (Bandwidth) Parametric filter, and gain all by using a simple visual drag and drop while listening. 
The result is, for the most part, an unnoticeable crossover and a sub frequency presentation that more closely matches the main speakers low frequency presentation. 

Since these initial equalization settings are subtly blending with the main speakers its suggested they be used on all six presets down to the frequency the user would like to increase, flatten, or decrease bass gain to accommodate the rooms demands and/or the music to the users personal taste.  

These software adjustments allow a blending in of multiple crossover parameters rather than a typical subwoofers hard crossover setting at which point the basic sub simply turns on at its full predetermined gain which may or may not match the media being played. Possibly leading your dealers complaint regarding subwoofers.