Dual subs and or speaker uograde


I have Monitor Audio Gold 300s as my front mains. All Gold speakers 100s for surrounds, 300Gx center, Gold GX rear surrounds.
Paradigm Sub 12 Reference as my sub.

Room is 10'w at front, and 18' wide at rear. 7.5'H, 22' long and 13' from front wall I have my 3 theatre seats,

I feel I need a little more umph for watching concerts on DVD.

I have about 15k to spend.

I am considering dual Persona subs or dual B&W DB1D subs to augment bass.

Other option is Persona 3F with 1 Persona sub ( a little over my budget) or Persona 3F with 1 B&W DB1D sub (on budget) or Persona 3F and 2 SVS Ultra16 subs.

Another options is GoldenEar Triton Reference, but due to 10' front wall with 100' screen, I'd need to put speakers fairly close to front outside walls 10-12"


Appreciate your opinions.

My audio store sells all except GoldenEar. They have given me great service.

My amp and preamp are NAD M27 and M17. I'm happy with the quality of the sound of my Monitor Audio 300s. Great sound. Not enough umph.

Thanks Roger
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Appreciate the responses. I have tried different crossover settings for Monitor Audio Gold 300s and find 60hz to be best with my current Paradigm Sub 12. 80hz may work better though with 2 or more subs.


I could get 2 additional subs and put the Paradigm at the rear of the room. I'll check out the subs you mentioned and see about 4. I've been told and have read, more is better. My concern is to get a good balance with speed and accuracy for music and decent rumble for movies. 4 smaller subs may work better .


Thanks for the input.
Looked up the Audio Kinesis Swarms. Sounds interesting. 

Room treatments would be good. I have an issue with the room, it's not square/rectangular.

The one long wall runs straight for 22' front wall with projector is 10'6" wide then the wall parallel to the long wall runs about 5' then I have a bannister with wooden spindles for the staircase going to the front entrance. Then besides the stairs it has an opening at bout 3'6" to access under the stairs then a door to the garage, then the wall does a 30 degree turn back into the room then runs a couple feed parallel to the long wall then widens 4' turns a 90 degree to two other doors to the back wall. The back wall parallel to the front wall is about 18' wide. 

The main issue for room treatment would be the front part of the parallel wall beside the stairs.

The right front main is just behind the bannister. There's no wall (just an open staircase with wooden spindles, so I don't know where I'd put any room treatment on that wall by the stairs. The long wall would be doable. Bass traps couldn't be too wide at the front wall because of the 100" screen. They'd have to be put in the corners with a round front side.

I am not too familiar with room treatment so I'll have to watch some videos on YouTube and do some reading. Hopefully it wouldn't kill too much volume as I like to watch music concert videos pretty loud.

Thanks for the info.
Okay got it 
Room Equalization Wizard.
REW. Now where to get it and I'll do some homework.

Thanks
Sorry to ask this question, but what is REW, where would I find the tool to use it?

Thanks
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll look at some room correction options this weekend.