Question: does xlr to 3.5mm work?
Answer: An xlr connector has 3 pins. ... If the 3.5 mm connector has 3 pins, if the cable used is a 3 wires balance cable, if the device you connecting the cable to uses a balanced female 3.5mm input (this is very unlikely), then there wouldn't be any quality loss theoretically (if the next point is also true).