External speakers or Mixer? Possible? Quality?

I know I might be pushing this little device to it's limits, but...
It sounds like there is a headphone jack and microphone jack. Has anyone tried to use adapter cables with these jacks to produce high quality audio output? I do live musical gigs on the side, and would love to be able to play my background accompaniment music directly from this device into a mixer, PA or other higher output device, AND get decent quality around the 100 watt range. I realize I would have to have larger audio files to store better sound, but will it make a difference once it goes through the adapter chord, mixer, etc., out to an audience?
Does anyone have experience trying (or doing) this?

The iPad has no microphone jack as such, but it does have a pin-hole next to the headphone jack which contains what I believe is a small condenser mic. It does work with the same combination earbud/microphone units as the iPhone. I have used the iPad to connect to the SIP server where I work and make calls through the company's system, just as if I were any other phone on somebody's desk.
As for output... at home I have a little Behringer Xenyx 802 board, which I use to mix the sound outputs from my Mac Mini and a Yaesu FT-857D (ham radio) into my speakers. I have an "floating cable" (separate 1/4" mono plugs to a 1/8" stereo plug, connected to a Radio Shack 20ft stereo headphone extender cable) on a stereo pair of inputs, and have used this with the iPad several times. The sound quality is just as good as what I get out of the Mac Mini, or any of the iPods or other devices I've plugged it into. I also bought the keyboard dock earlier today, and the line-out connector on the back of the dock sounds very nice through the board.
I think my iPad sounds just as good through the board as any other audio device I've tried it with. However, I'm not doing any kind of performance-grade mixing with it, I'm just feeding a set of Logitech desktop speakers and a Heil ProSet-4 headset (with the headset on the main output, and the speakers on the monitor out, so I can easily shut down the speakers and use headphones when I don't want to disturb others with my music.)

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