Looked at many chairs, and because my desk is higher than normal gaming desks I researched a chair which could go a little higher than normal. Specs on the AKRacing site spec this chair at 17-20.5 inches of adjustable range from floor to bottom of seat. Perfect! Except those are inaccurate. After receiving my first one, where a mounting hole inside the seat was completely gone / broken, I ordered a replacement. PITA to return, but fine. Because I couldn't even set up the original, I never got to check the height. New one, assembled and... what? This thing sits low... 14" off the floor. Raised I get to 16"s... still far from the quoted range. I contacted support via email, and that's a slow process. I told them either the strut was the wrong thickness (it goes a full 3.5"s past the wheelbase, almost touching the floor, and it it were thicker it wouldn't travel quite as far and possibly explain the height discrepancy. OR the shock / strut wasn't long enough. Without asking for further info, they sent me a new base, shock and bottom chair mount. That was actually nice, and the ONLY reason I'm not going to 1 star... because someone tired. Same result, though. The chair clearly, as shipped, could never go to 17-20 as advertised. So either someone changed specs along the way or its just a complete typo (the other chairs all have lower height ranges). Anyway, do NOT get this chair if you one of those rare people choosing it for a taller height. The overall chair is nice... I have carbon, and it certainly looks great... but if I use it with my desk I'm a little kid looking up at my screens. I emailed them with all the details and asked them to recheck their assembled height at their office and maybe change their online specs (available on their website). Never heard back from them this time. So rather than return it, I got a Turismo gaming desk which is lower. So, another $350 to make the chair work. All in all a pain, but with my new desk, its a decent chair. Don't like the plastic and flimsy armrests, but the rest is nice. You could probably find another chair for half the money which would work just as nice. When you do get the chair, the first thing you have to do is screw 4 bolts through metal arms on the seat base through the side of the back rest.... and I can tell they have issues with this because the instructions say to slowly check that the screws go in smoothly, and no material is blocking them (you have to push it through the chair material and blindly find where it screws in, then tighten). I did all of that, but couldn't get the 4th screw in... searching through the hole with my finger I found that the threads where the screw would go were completely gone, thus it would never work. I imagine on the inside of the seat back in the frame they predrill threads, then cover the chair. You as the assembler must line up an external bar, push the bolt through the bar, through the small slice in the chair material, and magically find those threads and tighten. Then cover with a piece of plastic so it looks ok. They should have done it the other way around with a stud coming OUT from the inside so you merely attach a bolt to an already visible stud. Anyway, neither here nor there, but that's how my experience taught me about the chairs mechanics. So, finished height 14-16", bolting to the seatback frame is a fragile and experience, especially on the last of the 4 bolts if the others weren't perfectly aligned. Hope this helps.