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Compression will typically not help because speakers fart out on transients, but a 0 attack LIMITER will definitely help as it will allow you to shave off the most offending transients. I cannot believe nobody suggested this.
Also a HPF is literally one resistor and capacitor. Hell, some bass guitars have a HPF circuit alongside LPF (usually known as tone control).
Short answer - Yes, get 10's and no fuss with HPF, you can get by with a little compression if needed, unless you really want that headache of combating the farting all the time, which will be different in every room...
Not really. 10's can certainly produce very low, useless mud frequencies.
While playing in the style of what op mentioned? I think not. It's way easier to roll off lower frequency with the right application, in this scenario smaller speakers would be better suited.
Would you recommend Beta10s, BP102s, or 3010LFs?