B&K or Crown Amp?

[Estring]

I have been running a Crown DC 300 as my front speaker amp in my surround system. I just acquired though a trade, a B&K TX3340 3 channel amp. Besides being able to run my fronts and center off the B&K, is there any other reason to switch the Crown for the B&K? I am happy with the sound of the Crown, but I have read that the B&K is a nice sounding amp as well. Any opinions will be very welcome.

 

[TopShelf1]

Have you listened to the b&k yet? If so what are your initial impressions?

 

[Isotonic]

I vote B&K. Crown is over rated very old tech.

 

[Estring]

Have you listened to the b&k yet? If so what are your initial impressions?

I have to say that the B&K sounds very nice to my ears. I'm running it into a pair of Infinity WTLCs and a PSB center channel. The Crown sounded nice as well, and because it is a bit of a pain to replace one amp with the other, unless there was a big reason to, I would just leave the B&K where it is. I may set up the Crown to run the surrounds in that case.