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Not to this one. But in the past I have performed informal AB tests of Crown 5000 Xti series against other amplifiers such as my Mark Levinson 523 (400 watts/channel, $20,000). Driving Revel Salon 2 in a very large space, I thought the Crown actually did better in bass but maybe the highs were slightly less clear. In a similar swap in M2 speakers in our theater, I could not detect any difference but this included a long switchover time.On a more serious note: Did you listen to it? Are the unnwanted byproducts easily audible?
So nothing too conclusive here but there is no replacement for tons and tons of power for bass and class-D amplifiers seem to be able to do that better than other configurations due to their high efficiency and copious amount of power.