Another reason why I can't get the "put your head where the sub sounds best" thing is that it takes the main speakers out of the picture...and the sub/main synergy is where the mojo lives.
Wolf_garcia, you are incorrect again. As I have mentioned in one of my previous posts, when putting the sub at the listening position one tries to find a place that is roughly the acoustic equivalent (for the low notes) of the listening chair. That means that 1) the bass will be very similar in the listening chair and in the place where you would like to put the sub, 2) all bass sources (i.e. room, main speaker and subwoofer) have been accounted for. (Only this paragraph is addressed to you Wolf_garcia.)
One has to realize that below 200 Hz, the listening room (and the neighboring rooms too!) has(have) a very significant effect on the sound that you hear in your listening chair. This is because the room can significantly amplify or absorb specific frequencies, i.e. the room modes. In fact, it often happens that when listening to big speakers what one hears below 100 Hz is dominated by the room response!
The main advantage of adding a subwoofer is that one can place the speakers in the position that gives the the best stereo image and most natural midrange, and place the subwoofer in a different place that minimizes negative bass resonances induced by the room.
I really do not want to be condescending and/or impolite, but people should understand that in order to properly integrate a sub into a system one has to understand how waves interact, i.e. the interference phenomenon. It is really not a difficult phenomenon (it is taught in high school), plus one does not need to understand the math to be aware of its consequences. (It is pretty much like with the water, one does not need to work out the theory or look at phase diagrams to understand that water can exist in different phases, e.g. solid, liquid and gas).