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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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musicaddict
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I think the first two responses you received are very well-informed and that's great to see/read. Although Monitor Audio is not for me they make great speakers and you own some. I'm surprised they are not dynamic enough, but subs will help. (Possibly high pass to the Gold 300s very low 50-60, to relieve 40 and below, and to play louder at higher Hz? I never had success but who knows; they say it can work.)

Room treatment is a good recommendation (I still need it myself!) with which I fully concur. Well done treatment works wonders. Good luck.

Get the subs for that rock-solid foundation to your music and movies. I need to read more about 3-4 subs versus one big one, or two. That Audio Kinesis Swarm set of four is supposed to be quite effective at 25oo or so. Along the same line, 3 or 4 well-placed SVS SB-2000s barely discontinued, each with it's own amp and room location. And there are plenty of deadly single subs out there.
musicaddict
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Those are nice comments about dialing in the speakers, Elliott... I really like the idea of blending the sub properly with the larger mains first, then adding the other three, etc. Even better if the system does double duty for two channel music.

I would not be surprised if you are correct about the 80Hz crossover, Erik. It seems everything I run for mains is relatively full-range and my sub is probably too muddy so I shelf it down low. I should try fiddling a bit in the home theater with sub & main crossover points, and shop new sub(s).

I am going to start actively reading about setting up several smaller subs in our theater, small at 12 x 22.5 x 8. I can 'hear' two or three 12" powered subs making that room come alive.

In the music room the D2s drop into high 30s; I run them full-range, not yet finding a good way to blend a high pass to them. Best with an REL B1 is 23Hz and 9/40 on volume. Smooth down to almost 25Hz, no concert volumes though, thank you.


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