A:Answer No it will not impact performance. This Soundbar uses Vertical surround, instead of Dolby Atmos, the speaker actually arch the sounds to you instead of bouncing off the ceiling, and you can set the exact distance it is from your seating area to give you the best sound, also highly recommend the rear speakers. The setup is a breez you configure you room using an on tv setup that uses really simple pictures and diagrams, I absolutely love this Soundbar it’s amazing, if you own a Sony tv I would stick with the Soundbar, in my experience pairing like branded sound bars with TV always gives you way better performance, other wise the Samsung HW-N850 or HW-N950 save the money and get last years models, they are nearly identical to this years samsungs
