Until AV and WAF spawned good reasonably priced subwoofers, I always had 3 way floorstanders, the last where a pair of KEF 104.2 bought around 1986

Since year 2000, all my speaker solutions include one or two subwoofers, first with standmounts, now with open baffle, much easier to integrate, and they do real bass, unlike most floorstanders up to budgets I cannot afford...