Yeah, a good gramophone sounds much better, way richer.
Even with the correct needle on a high end, most old 78s sound pretty bad on an electric turntable compared to a well maintained gramophone. I know a few people with them, and nothing else comes close for this kind of stuff (of course that's hearing it in person, rather than recorded through a cheap microphone, digitized, and compressed until it sounds worse than a microcassette from an 80s answering machine, which is what we've got here).