What if we frame it in this way: if you want to hear something similar to what the mixing people listened (my assumptions are, flat speakers at short(ish) distance, at what I consider high volume (for my taste)), put the bass flatter and go up with volume. If you don’t know what do you like, buy something similar to the HT, it is more probable that would you like it. If you know what do you like, then, whichever reference will do, you just need the measurements and do the adjustment you like… no?