Disconnecting the horn on a Hartke VX115 cab

[northstreet]

I've just bought a second hand VX115 and want to disconnect the built-in horn. Seems straight forward enough to disconnect the wires, but my question is do I leave it open circuit or should I join the wires together? I'll be powering the cab through a Hartke LH500.

[alexclaber]

I would generally disconnect a horn on the amp side of the crossover, as simply removing the horn could cause a short circuit across any shunt components in the crossover. If you can be sure than there is simply a series capacitor on the horn and no shunt components (inductors in parallel with horn) then you just disconnect the horn - leave the circuit open otherwise you'll end up with a super low impedance load at high frequencies which your amp will not like!

Alex