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Looking to Try a Passive Preamp

I am looking to try a passive preamp in a system using a Audio Mirror Tubadour III DAC having an output impedance of 1.5K - 2K ohms  and a BEL 1001MK5 amplifier having an input impedance of 22K ohms. I am interested in this approach due to having a problem with EMI and RFI interference with my tube based active  preamp which may become a subject of another thread herein.

I own a Schiit Audio SYS passive. My concern is, given it's input impedance of 10K ohms and it's output impedance of 5K ohms may make it not the best fit. I understand that the input impedance of the SYS and Bel amp are added to give the total impedance that is 'seen' by the DAC, the combined 32K+ impedance due to SYS/amp/2pairs interconnects and that should be OK.  I am concerned about the output impedance of the SYS which to my limited understanding seems too high. Am I correct on any of this? 

If I am correct in my concern with the SYS I am interested in finding another passive pre having input/output impedance better suited to my system. Suggestions sought.

Thanks in advance for any help. Mike
 
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I own the Jolida Glass FX DAC III and I was curious about the 47K output impedance figure because my preamp lists 13K as the input impedance and the audio sounds OK. Well, I just called Jolida and they said that the actual output impedance is 600 ohm, i.e. less than even 1K, let alone 47K! So my input of 13K is 21.7 times the output, which is over twice more than the recommended 10 times figure.

I asked why 47K is on the website even now and all they could say is that it must be a typo.
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