This is a very personal setting.........
I work in commercial audio where many venues want that chest thumping, trouser flapping bass line
and if I turned the HF amps off no one would notice
For 2ch bass wants to be intergrated and I find many have a sub set way to high, if you know you can hear it, its to loud. Many will say 2ch is not 2+.1
For MC this does also seem to matter which film you watch, and to hear the bass is often correct, so you have to enter a different mind set in MC mode.
Although the 2ch guy will have an organ track that plays real low, the MC film will have a soundtrack that deliberatly tries to shake foundations with a 9hz sine wave - War of the Worlds !!! and others.......
For those with a 2ch / MC room in one different settings are required, And also a different appraoch to the audio.
At home I miss the use of 18" & 24" subs, With Infra Subs for that final few Hz
But I think I have had to grow up and be more sensible.........
OK - So "sensible" means different things to different people.
Mag - I like your style with the bass aa
I very much like that you try different things.
With your MC system I think you have five front speakers Far L, L, C, R, far R is that correct?
If so are the Far L & R raised above the L & R - This seems to be the most recent 9.1 MC style setups.......
In commercial applications there are times when "HF Pods" are flown (Mounted) over the audience to give more spacial sound, this may not seem correct for many but its a different style of audio.
Mag - What sub do you use?