Check out www.headphone.com for hundreds of headphone recommendations. I've owned and listened to many headphones from radioshack and the like, but the first time I heard headphones sound amazing was with the Grados. I've heard the Grado sr60s ($70)and owned the sr80s ($95)and Sr325s. I now own the Sennheiser HD650s ($450) and am going to buy a new set of SR325s ($300). The Sennheisers are crazy accurate, but the Grados are more fun and in my opinion sound better. I've been contemplating the Beyerdynamics, but I've never heard them. Oh yeah, the Grados have a low impedance so they will sound fine out of your laptop. The HD650s have a higher impedance which means they sound much better with a headphone amplifier. The Grados sound fantastic with an amp, but also sound fine just out of normal headphone jacks.