Mex,
What kinda laptop ya got anyway????
Both of the laptops I've had drive plain old cheapy wired headphones just fine using the headphone jack on the side of their chassis .... way too much volume at max, and stereo ... too.
I even wanted to cut out more outside noise when wearing the El Cheapo wired headphones with the laptop ... bought a set of those cheap noise muffling plastic ear protectors that you wear around loud power equipment. Took the guts out of the El Cheapo wired headphones and glued them into each side of the cheap noise muffling plastic ear protectors. Walla ... wired headphones for the laptop that let "no" outside noise in. I even soldered a small inline pot into the headphone cord from the laptop so I could get some local volume control without having to mess with the laptop's sound card on-screen volume slider.
Just cuz I live in CA doesn't mean I shouldn't go El Cheapo as much as possible.
P.S. Many laptop sound cards have several sound adjustments modes - including equalizer functions - so you can tweak the sound in just the way you want it.
