Do No Harm ... well the least harm anyway

I went with a Marchand balanced passive high pass at 80hz because of a room/speaker placement issue. With my speakers in the best sounding position overall, I had a big bump from 50-70hz that was resistant to acoustic treatments. By rolling off below 80 and filling that with a sub located near floor level, that bump disappeared without even using eq on the sub. 

Every situation is different. I spent months working on acoustic treatments that reduced the bump from 10 to 5db, which I think helped with integrating the two. The overall result is a great improvement though I expect I'll continue to experiment.

My filter is 80hz, 24db slope. I can quickly bypass it by just joining the two XLR connectors and turn off the sub. I've done the comparison several times and find the imaging and balance improved with the filter and sub. And of course I can turn off the sub and the mains still sound great, if thin. So I'm comfortable that the filter does no harm.

Integrating the sub required adjusting the frequency and slope of the LPF and adjusting the phase of the sub. I played with PEQ but ended up not using it. If you are using an external amp, I would suggest some kind of DSP as well.