Clearaudio
Talisman V2.1 Gold
Introduced 2022$2,200 MSRP
The Talisman V2.1 Gold is Clearaudio's entry point into its moving-coil cartridge line, built around a hand-polished ebony body and using the patented symmetrical eight-magnet coil arrangement with gold-wire coils shared with the brand's higher-tier models. The current V2.1 revision updates the generator and cantilever/stylus assembly, borrowing the generator design from Clearaudio's Concerto V2.
MSRP
$2,200
Used market · Good
$1,500
-32% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $2,200 at launch to $1,500 today.
Specifications
- Price
- $2,200 (Paragon SNS / Audio Connect, US); €1,900 (Auditorium.de, Germany)
- Weight
- 10.6–11.2 g
- Compliance
- 15 µm/mN
- Stylus type
- Micro HD needle grind
- Body material
- Hand-polished ebony
- Output voltage
- 0.5 mV
- Channel separation
- >30 dB crosstalk attenuation, 25–30 dB
- Frequency response
- 20 Hz–20 kHz
- Internal impedance
- 50 Ohm
- Cantilever material
- Boron
- Output voltage 5 cm sec
- 0.5 mV
- Recommended tracking force
- 2.8 g
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