A M P H E N O L C O R P O R A T I O N 2 0 0 4 A N N U A L R E P O R T  Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm  To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Amphenol Corporation  Wallingford, Connecticut  We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Amphenol Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of  December 31, 2004 and 2003, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2004, management’s assessment  of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004, and the effectiveness of  the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004, and have issued our report thereon dated  March 11, 2005; such consolidated financial statements and report are included elsewhere in the Form 10-K. Our audits also  included the consolidated financial statement schedules of the Company listed in Item 15. These consolidated financial  statement schedules are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion based on  our audits. In our opinion, such consolidated financial statement schedules, when considered in relation to the basic  consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.  Hartford, Connecticut  March 11, 2005  57