DHC Molecule Elite22 Elite19 OCC Silver Litz Headphone / IEM Cable

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DHC Molecule Elite Silver Headphone / IEM Cable

After 15 years, the silver headphone cable is perfected.

A long story.  More than ten generations of wire brought us to the 2025 standard for design, metallurgy, and insulation.  Our OCC story began in 2009 when we first experimented with nascent, preexisting continuous-cast copper wires – unsuitable for headphone cables despite their audible promise.  After our first custom OCC copper headphone wire was an instant classic, we moved onto higher-performing litz variants before launching the world’s first OCC silver litz headphone cable in 2012, setting the standard that persists to this day.  Silver Peptide, the DHC wire that started it all, has now reached its potential.

The search.  Ideal silver, unsurprisingly, is hard to find.  So hard to find, that we’ve had far more failed prototypes than successful ones.  Nothing short of a very long term relationship with OCC metals pioneers – a factory run by audiophiles, making small adjustments and iterations over the course of our time in business – has allowed for a silver wire that has universal matchability to a diverse selection of gear.  A good silver has to be unequivocally more likeable than one’s favorite copper cable – as it already has to face greater scrutiny due to preconceived notions of how silver is supposed to sound – while offering superior detail and resolution to copper.  This silver offers unexpected listening comfort and natural sound while prioritizing technicalities, realism and timbre.  Beyond sound, durability and ergonomics are the sine qua non of headphone cables – the proprietary insulation correctly balances heat-tolerance, shape memory, colorfastness, and scratch resistance among other necessary qualities.
There are many shortcuts available now that were not there for us in 2009 – off-the-shelf spools of wire as far as the eye can see – but they do not yield a similar result.  With so many OCC headphone cables in circulation, company experience and provenance of the wire separate our products from the rest.  We are proud to tell the real-life story of how our cables came to be, not a themed fantasy epic written by AI.

Two forms.  Silver Peptide was always a slim 25awg x 4 design with an option for an 8-wire 22awg (effective gauge) model.  Silver Peptide 22, as our new 4-wire cable with the same gauge as our original 8-wire flagship, offers superior potency, detail, and realism in a more efficient package.  Jump to 8 wires with the revised Elite19, a fitting replacement for the legendary original Elite19 made from 4 large wires, allowing us more applications and better comfort.  Both designs are as suitable for full-size headphones as they are for in-ear monitors, with terrific all-day wearability.  Elite19 performs comparably to our Prion4 flagship and is bested only by the Chimera, while offering a unique all-silver personality that helps details shimmer and leap out of the soundstage.  Elite22 offers the vast majority of the Elite19 listening experience in a practical package.

Presenting: Style Match.  Our top cables benefit from Style Match – where we use 15 years of our best judgement and our archive of venerable Eidolic parts, splitters, barrels, and even custom-cast 3d-printed precious metal parts.  Instead of choosing from limited menus and checkboxes, we will confer directly with each customer to match their favorite gear or aesthetic.  For example, the popular Macbeth IEM was matched using a polished titanium modular 4.4 barrel containing the double-anodized red and black aluminum ring, the chrome ARTISAN splitter, and customized lighter-colored Eidolic IEM barrels to tie the styles together.  Everything is included, to the best of our abilities, aside from custom-cast precious metal 3D prints for an upcharge based on the final quotes from the casting foundry.  We have also listed a few basic archetypes – from dark styles, to light styles, to even rainbow styles – as well as a no-preference “omakase” option where we will surprise you!
DHC will go out of our way to make each cable a standalone art piece.

ARTISAN from Eidolic Connectors is here!

Our most unique y-splits are standard for Elite19 8-wire!  Big enough for DHC’s fearsome Chimera flagship, these larger-than-life splitters feature nearly 200 individually 5-axis CNC machined facets, allowing them to catch the light and flash sunbeams at passers-by…
A hidden 3D-printed insert resizes the front holes of the ARTISAN splitter to fit Elite19, Mini Chimera, and more…
At just 5 grams, they won’t weigh you down, although we have a variety of different scales of splitters, including custom 3D-printed cast-precious-metal splitters hand-drawn to your specifications.
The “Rainbow” colorway is one-of-a-kind, found only at Eidolic – a next-generation hard-carbon coating made out of mostly diamond bonds, allowing hardness in excess of 8000HV (four times that of sapphire, and approaching pure diamond).  The coating’s light interference properties give it an unpredictable, color-shifting rainbow effect.