I just purchased 2sa970-BL and 2sc2240-BL toshiba low noise transistors neither one looked even clost to toshiba and both had steel leads i have bought transistors for decades and never such a blatent lie the pictures were of real toshiba parts what i got was junk barely legible and both parts measured way off the best one for 2240-bl was 236 HFE and the 970-bl was 209 some were below 200 WOW is all i can say do not buy from them unless you want to destroy what you have buy from AMPSLAB i have bought from him several times although not cheap i have always received good REAL parts from him and he can be trusted another great solution is to buy SMD 2sa1163 is exact of 2sa970 and 2sc2713 is exact same as 2sc2240 they have gr and bl for both and i can tell you what i just bough the 2sa1163 avg was 500 to 510 HFE in BL and the 2sc2713 avg was 480 HFE in BL geat match right out of the package i bought the adapters on Amazon for 50 of them its 8 dollars and i also bought a 100' coil of bare tinned copper wire 26awg solid for 9 dollars i made about 2 dozen pairs in couple hours and results were typical Toshiba very predictable performance and the hfe numbers from them are consistent price was 13 dollars per 100 transistors from mouser for BL and 9 dollars for GR SAVE YOUSELF MONEY AND FRUSTRATION DONT BUY FROM UTSOURCE THEY BURNED ME TWICE IM HOPING I SAVE JUST 1 PERSON THE TROUBLE BY SEEING THIS POST
I bought some 3sa1516 and 2sc3907 from them 3 years ago used and the
y were real parts and good numbers on them i see since then they
have gone dark and sell chinese garbage every part i bought you could pick up from a foot away with a magnet no one who builds or repairs audio equipment would put steel lead transistor in their equipment even the tin plated or copper clad adds distortion to the circuit the last parts i bought were so bad they went right
in the trash
y were real parts and good numbers on them i see since then they
have gone dark and sell chinese garbage every part i bought you could pick up from a foot away with a magnet no one who builds or repairs audio equipment would put steel lead transistor in their equipment even the tin plated or copper clad adds distortion to the circuit the last parts i bought were so bad they went right
in the trash
