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Bryan, I'll take a look and help you out when I come over this weekend, the 180 should be staying if not at your house ......you ordered it in light maple right

Can you pre-test the shelf by having a couple of small children bounce on it?

Bouncing small children is my go-to advice, much like duct tape is to others.

That's for you to decide.

I bet the bridge is made of some sort of MDF partical board, meant only to support knick-knacks and the like. The VP180 is one hell of a knick-knack, indeed.

I think the cheapest, easiest and probably best solution would be to go to your local hardware store (Home Depot or whatever) and buy a piece of solid, unpainted wood, 1/2 thick should do, that spans the gap. Just laying this across the span should reinforce the span enough to prevent sagging.

You could probably even hide the piece of wood by moving it rearward on the shelf so that only the back of the speaker lays on it. In this configuration, the VP180 will be pointing more downward, as a result of its tail being placed higher in the air, on the piece of reinforcement wood. I would then insert a couple of short screws into the back of the speaker cabinet (careful to avoid going too deep into the speaker cavity and causing havoc), and run some picture hanging wire from those screws, to attach to the shelf to prevent a sliding disaster.

Is it a law or something that every Canuck have a cache of hockey pucks laying around?

What the puck are you guys talkin' about?

I used an aluminum U channel that wraps around my 3/4 in MDF shelves. If you look close enough at the picture you can see it. Not the same color as the shelf but it's in the back.

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Great solution ND.

That U channel looks really good. I bet they come in different gauges depending on the load, too.

Nice touch with the channel support ND, my cabinet is almost identical to yours using the 3/4" MDF but because there is not an access to the back I used heavy duty sliders for each shelf.