Does the journey for seeking knowledge become invalid in this age due to the existence of scholars' tapes?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Some students of knowledge hold that there is no need to travel now for seeking knowledge, due to the existence of scholars' tapes, which contain their explanations of the books. Is this statement correct?

Answer:
This is not a student of knowledge; this is an ignorant person. Listening to tapes and reading books is not sufficient. Rather, one must sit in the gatherings of knowledge or in classrooms for systematic study. One must study under the teachers. Tapes are not sufficient, and books are not sufficient. Books are better than tapes because books are edited and written, whereas in a tape a person speaks and may err in much of the speech because he was not present, or because what he wanted to speak about was absent from his mind, or because he improvises his speech. If books, which are edited and written, are not relied upon...
...how can one rely on tapes in which errors occur frequently? One should be alert to this matter.