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I think Newcomb made a variation of the R12 for many, many years. They made several maroon versions, followed by the newer models in grey or tan cases, then the RT12, which was a solid state version. I never really cared for the solid state newcomb's. They were decent performers; but, the amplifiers were much harder to work on than the tube amps. I used to have a late tube type newcomb model ED10 from the early '70's (?). It used a SE 6V6 amp and was housed in the newer beige case with the red and blue "N" badge. For a little 5 watt amp, it sounded really nice. A friend of mine, who has helped me out over the years, needed something to play 78's on and I gave him that record player. I don't know exactly when Newcomb stopped making tube record players; but, I used to have a '71 electronics master catalog that still had some tube models listed (both the transcription players and the smaller classroom models).
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