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How are your speakers connected currently?
The reason I ask is that if all you need is a USB audio interface/DAC to go to your monitors instead of using the headphone or optical line out jack on your Mac Pro, you could use something like the Audioengine D1 to connect to powered speakers via RCA rather than XLR.
If you really need XLR out, one option (but quite a bit more expensive) might be the Sound Devices USBPre 2, which has a good range of outputs including XLR and is a very solid unit; it would probably last 20 years or more. It's overkill for what you need, but that's also true for most of the "breakout boxes" I'm seeing online. And if you ever need an audio interface for recording the USBPre2 has excellent preamps and a variety of inputs as well as outputs; it's a Swiss Army knife in that regard. I have one of these.