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by H_mood on December 24th, 2006
CleverlyPut has answered for if you connect one speaker to both channels of your stereo amp (bridging).
In case you meant to ask for one speaker connected to one channel, the other channel unconnected ("open"): with transistor amps this is no problem.
Only with valve / tube amps it is actually very dangerous to run the amp output open. One better terminates the output with a resistor (few tens of ohms, few watt rating will do).
by CleverlyPut on December 18th, 2006
No, your amp should be capable of what's called 'bridging', esentially it's when you use one polarity from each 'port'. Look for the diagram above the ports in question on the amp, you'll see a line that connects two of X ports together use the polarities that the diagram indicates. Careful though because this doubles the power to the speaker and if it cannot handle amperage you'll be out of tunes.
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