Just updating this, been a bit over a month, the adapters are working nicely, I can focus on other things for now. Hard to recommend them as a permanent solution as I still have to be a bit careful about positioning the headphones on my head. Also the left screw connector still works loose, just as it did when I was using SMC cables.... there's a reason Hifiman ditched those connectors... I still intend to do the mod and fit miniXLRs to the headphones eventually. Just not a high priority.