 Even before the product had been fully developed it had appeared at many events worldwide including the NAMM Show, Musikmesse, TEDx conferences, and the Future Everything Festival, and received press from popular organisations such as Sound on Sound, BBC, Wired and MusicRadar.There are currently two different AlphaSphere models - the nexus series and the elite series.The initial concept of AlphaSphere was conceived while company founder Adam Place was studying at the Nagoya University of Arts in Japan where he produced an initial prototype.