[locusofself]

Subjectively it seems like headphone jacks on laptops have gotten significantly better in the last 20 years. I don't have any qualms about listening to music on my macbook. Even budget audio interfaces like Focusrite are certainly going to have stronger headphone amplifiers and probably better frequency response and work well with higher impedance headphones though. Brands like MOTU and Audient are even better.

[Kirby64]

They have, especially if your standard is Apple devices. Pretty much all Apple devices that still have a headphone jack have extremely competent audio paths, capable of driving the most fiddley headphones. Much better than mediocre audio interfaces.