Welcome to the Twin Cities metro.
I would give you encouragement that you can build a good system in your new home.
The restrictions you are working under will force you to build a good and properly balanced AV system.
This multiple powerful sub craze in nonsense and leads to a banal unbalanced vulgar sound. Yes, vulgar and I mean it. In my youth it was all HF fizz tish and shout. Now the pendulum is all boom, bang and thump. Although polar opposites neither is high fidelity balanced sound. Subs are actually the most dispensable part of a sound system. Certainly what I'm hearing at systems on offer today is NOT balanced. They are ghastly freak shows.
You say you want to watch mainly movies, TV and sports. For that the real priority is to have a system that can faithfully reproduce human speech with clarity at a natural volume without coloration or shout. Systems that can do that, are in my experience incredibly rare. So right off the bat they are no good at telling a story intimately.
For your needs the most important attribute is that it can tell a story. Movies and most TV programs are about telling a story and therefore a system than can really make it seem you are eves dropping on the characters is the most important attribute for your system, not how big the gooey and totally unnatural bass is.
The miss use of subs in my opinion is now the biggest factor in producing poor quality reproduction.
So you do not need to annoy your neighbors with subs. All this money and trouble devoted to the last octave is miss placed until more attention is paid to more important parts of the audio spectrum.
I'm going to return to the all important attribute of appropriate balance in audio systems. You need to tune your ears to the sounds of your environment. Good systems faithfully reproduce the sounds of our everyday experience.
I am now living very close to you at Eagan.
We are now getting down to one residence form two. We sold our beautiful lake home on Benedict Lake in May. We also have a town home in Eagan, which we have now vacated and that has been on the market for just over a week. We have just moved into our newly built home in Eagan 12 days ago.
I'm in the process of rebuilding out the AV room from Benedict. I have the system my wife wanted up and running in the main living area. I have the family room system up and running and hope to have the main AV room up and running in two to three weeks.
Now we had a very nice system in our Town home condo. It had a shared wall. My wife loved that system and we never had a complaint from neighbors in 11 years we owned it.
The drivers you see were in sealed enclosures, the speakers contain two 9" Morel sub drivers in isobarik second order coupled cavity configuration with F3 in the mid twenties. The sound was nicely balanced and we played it at realistic natural levels without complaint. They were good enough that the last time a close friend heard them he upgraded his B & W 800 Ds, to the B &W 800 D3s the following week!
So achieving a good natural and balanced sound should not require annoying your neighbors.
So "my wife's" system has moved to the main living area of our new home and is filling a huge area with a newly designed in wall system. One 10" driver is filling this huge space with balanced bass.
This system is now up and running. I will post when the trim is complete. I picked up the polished metal trim for the speaker system today and will install it tomorrow. The powder coated trim for the equipment cases will be ready at the end of next week. I will post more pictures then.
If you want to get in touch, as will live just a few miles away, I can help you if you want when the main AV room is complete in two to three weeks. You are welcome to PM me.