How much difference do lower mass cartridge clips make in playback?

Curious question based on ''essentialist world view''. One can state
in general that the most are worthless. The best are ''Clearaudio''
but pretty expensive. Aka : meant for the best cart/headshell combo.
Mitchel ''silver kind'' are similar but ''softer'' qua grip. Also pretty
expensive. So while we have ''endless'' choice of cables we hardly
have choice for clips. Despite all the stories about importance of
signal path. 

Some direct questions can distract from even more important
questions. I mean the problem of tonerarms with fast headshells.
Those are probably made for masochist. By each cart change,
not to speak about broken clips, one will ask himself : my God
why deed I not buy an arm with removable headshell? Well my
consolation is that one need only 4 of those Clearaudio clips.

Gold and silver are to soft for clips. That is why the most are made
from gold -or silver plated bronze. Clearaudio's are machined from
Rhodium and than gold-platted. All headshell wire are isolated 
so hardly resonate. 

slaw&oldears, for those who never owned Mitchell clips will be
difficult to understand what you are talking about. Using an thing 
and talking about or describing the thing are different issues.
Because Mitchell clips are made from silver which is an soft
material one can't get ''tension'' back by ''squeezing'' its ''legs''. 
The tension is lost by using different carts with different pin's
dimensions. The added problem is the difference of ''thickness'' 
by headshell pins and cart pins. It is a shame that  there are
no standards  for such basic dimensions. For such expensive
items one should not need ''toothpick''  as fixing ''instrument''.