Mike, I don't know what kind of a hair you have up your ass, but I
strongly suspect the motivation for your post is that you have some
off-shore made cheap Amphenol imitations to sell.

You posted:

Your E-bay ad is very misleading. First of all, the Amphenol logo
on
the box is from the '70s, not the '50s.

I simply included a photo of the box so people would realize that these
are actual Amphenol connectors rather than some cheap, oriental,
knock-off. The fact is that identical Amphenol made high impedance
microphone connectors of this manufacture and type have been in
continuous use since the late 1940s. My first exposure to them was on
Sears "Wire Recorders" circa 1949, and years later Pentron tape
recorders during the mid-1950s. Sir, you are obviously too young to
remember these days, or too ignorant to recognize truth in advertising
when you see it!

"While it is true that Amphenol no longer makes that connector, its
because they sold that product line to WPI
http://www.wpi-interconnect.com/ several years ago."

....And who produces a cheap, off-shore manufactured imitation of the
original Amphenol's. What was sold to WPI was not the tooling, but use
of the brand name only. Sheesh...you really have no clue!

"Switchcraft http://www.switchcraft.com/ 2501 series is a fully
compatible, and better quality connector line. Then there are still
imported connectors that mate with this old industry standard. "

Switchcraft product were never in the same league with those of
Amphenol, and most are/were imported crap.

" $10 each is an outrageous price. You can find these at a lot of
online surplus dealers and almost any place that deals in older musical

equipment. "

Read my ad again. The starting bid price is $7.50 inclusing packing and
shipping. The $10 price is for Buy It Now, and also includeds free
shipping.

"BTW, I still have 3 of the 2501F Switchcraft connectors for $3.50
each, and a good supply of the self shorting 2501 MP chassis mount
connector that short circuits the input when you remove the connector
for $2 each. This item is NLA from the OEM. I got a good price from a
surplus dealer who doesn't have any idea what they are, so I bought 25
to replace all of the microphone connectors on my restored antique test

equipment."

Good for you. Does that $3.50 price include free packing, shipping,
eBay and Paypal fees for youur offshore produced crap, or are you going
to shaft your buyers with another $3.00 for packing and shipping?

My connectors are real Amphenols and being sold postpaid. Are yours?

Harry C.