[Santana Eternal]

Hey guys,
 
My friend recently ran over my Sennheiser HD201 with a shopping cart, and I've been digging around for some affordable but high quality over/around-the-ear headphones.
These are currently the two contenders that I'm having trouble choosing from, since I've read many positive reviews for both.
So, if you'd care to recommend me which one to take, I'll be happy.
My preferences are, in order from high to low:
 
Sound Quality and frequency balance
 
Minimum background noise interference
 
Comfort
 
Build Quality
 
Price

 

[Primetime86]

Before I recommend can you list your music taste?

 

[Santana Eternal]

Every genre of Rock from Classic Rock like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and the likes to extreme Death Metal and Deathcore (e.g. Cannibal Corpse, Death, Suicide Silence, Make Them Suffer).
I also listen to Jazz, stuff from the mid 40s and onwards.

 

[Santana Eternal]

Every genre of Rock from Classic Rock like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and the likes to extreme Death Metal and Deathcore (e.g. Cannibal Corpse, Death, Suicide Silence, Make Them Suffer).
I also listen to Jazz, stuff from the mid 40s and onwards.

 

[Primetime86]

Soundmagic HP100
AKG K550
 
 
Both of these are excellent for your taste. Built good and are comfortable for long listening sessions.

 

[Santana Eternal]

Just one more question,
 
Do the SoundMagic HP100 have good passive noise isolation? 

 

[Primetime86]

It's decent, On buses and trains it did the job.

 

[Santana Eternal]

Ok very last, question sorry for this. To what degree, if any, do these headphones leak out sound? 
(I've stood next to people with Beats and the flipping thing just blasts out everything, I swear I could hear their music better than them)

 

[Primetime86]

 it's fine They will leak at high volumes, I have never owned a or heard a headphone that doesn't leak at least a bit. You will be fine it wouldn't be bothersome. The best headphones I have had for not leaking are the shure SRH440 but the HP100 are decent.

 

[Santana Eternal]

Thanks a lot, I'll probably post sometime this month how they're holding up against my standards.
 
Cheers!