Going old school

It all started with the soundtrack of Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight. The music/songs strongly appealed to me. It reminded me of the sound on a hand-cranked gramophone in my original home that is sadly being used as kind of a coffee/tea stand. I started looking up the artists and then tried to get the albums. My first stumbling block was this new (old) thing I am unaccustomed to - 78 rpm. I am fairly new in my re-entry into vinyl and am getting deeper every day. Now, I feel like venturing into 78 rpm. I found out that you cannot just get a player with 3 (or variable) speed settings as you require specialized cartridges. I saw a couple of new models that handle this speed - one was a Rega - but unsure of the cartridge aspect. I became aware of vintage models such as a Garrard but don't know if that is a good choice given their age (apart from 501s). Do you have experience with these setups and what do I need to do to build such a setup?