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You may find more a benefit to your 7.1 if the sides were more directly to the side or slightly in front.

I had near 20ft of dead air space between my side surrounds, and my LR surround is almost like a very wide front, as the system is corner situated. The rear center speaker helped fill in the gap nicely, especially during action shots in movies. I now notice sounds from LR, RR and RC are much more defined and yet blend better during softer surround effects.