My reason for asking about bookcase vs stands was to know if rear ported was ruled out. A bookcase is probably not optimum for any speaker but if have heard some pretty good sound from speakers in bookcases over the years. However, a rear ported speaker can pretty much be expected to categorically sound bad in a bookcase.
The HVL-1's are front ported, but that is not a concern now that I know you are using stands.
If you play an acoustic instrument and value accuracy, Dennis Murphy's is the best speaker you can find in the $200 range among any speakers that I know of.
What receiver are you using, and what sub? Do you remember what the crossover frequency was that the AVR assigned for the sub/SuperZero?
You have me curious. While my SuperZero's do not have the highest frequencies to replicate chimes, they otherwise do well with the Velodyne VMS-8 sub I use. I don't think you need such a nice sub, but some subs don't play up to 150Hz very well. For those speakers I think SVS's Merlin is correct - for an AVR managed crossover, crossover at 120Hz:
http://www.svsound.com/pages/merlin