Would you run a 1/2 ohm speaker? When you disconnect a tweeter that's what can happen. The likelihood of damaging your amp is slight, but so is that of an offshore oil rig blowing up.
If you don't want to run a tweeter remove it and the crossover so that the potential for damaging your amp is zero.
This seems to be overstating things just a bit, Bill - in your example, one section of the crossover is seeing that low of a load - and not the amp... It's been said many times that taking the horn out of a cab's circuitry doesn't alter it's overall impedence - were those people wrong???
Please note that I'm one of the people who uses a horn, so odds are strong that I won't be disconnecting mine, anyways - BUT, I have done so in the past with a Peavey 410 when the horn got blown, and have also done it with my Mesa 610 - and without ANY ill effects... I have also seen and heard of it being done more times than I can count, and have NEVER heard of an amp being damaged by doing so...
No doubt about it - the *proper* move to disconnect a tweeter from a cab is to bypass the crossover, and wire the other drivers directly to the jack - but I don't think simply disconnecting the horn is quite the recipe for disaster that you've made it out to be...
For example - how many people in this very thread have just disconnected their tweeters??? - I haven't seen anyone complain of having any troubles by doing so...
- georgestrings
