This question is aimed to TRUE Elec Engineers, not fuse or wire directionality believers.



Has any of you ACTUALLY worked with and recommend a SSR which does not introduce any audible distortion on the speaker line and which can operate with a large range of trigger voltages (12 - 48 VDC, may need to have on board voltage regulator for this range).  I am building a speaker DC protector and do not want to use electro mechanical relays becoz of DC arcing and contact erosion issues.  It needs to be capable of switching up to 15 amps at about 100 volts.

Only TRUE engineers reply please.

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Back to back MOSFETs suggested here will work but they need a 10V floating voltage source or some photovoltaic coupler to a DC detection circuit. These have time delays. The tweeter should be able to handle a short single spike. Average power will be low.
Power requirements for a tweeter is very low so driving from a 100V source kinda don't make sense. Bi amping using low power amp for tweeters does.
Tube amps have transformers isolating from DC and typically sound good.
A normal mechanical relay has a delay time as well, like 8 - 20 ms  so some energy will reach the tweeter. I would think there is a cap in series with the tweeter, that will block DC. A small relay could be placed after the cap maybe even a reed relay.
As some have posted here, a fast crowbar circuit is used to blow a fuse where extreme protection is needed.
If a power amp has glitches that puts DC on the output it should be fixed or else replaced. 
Additionally, HF energy can pass the speaker high-pass filter and some protection for the tweeter is needed here.  I have burned up tweeters with amp stability problems. Perhaps limit the max frequency the tweeter is exposed to. 
DC on the output of audio amps is a problem that was solved 40 years ago, as I can recall. This really should not be an issue.