diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py
index 3edfd2595..c929d2124 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py
@@ -869,8 +869,6 @@ class RelPositionMultiheadAttention(nn.Module):
         self.copy_pos_query = Identity()
         self.copy_query = Identity()
 
-        self.in_balancer = ActivationBalancer(3 * attention_dim,
-                                              channel_dim=-1, max_abs=5.0)
         self.out_proj = ScaledLinear(
             attention_dim // 2, embed_dim, bias=True, initial_scale=0.05
         )
@@ -930,7 +928,7 @@ class RelPositionMultiheadAttention(nn.Module):
                  and S is the sequence length.
         """
         x, weights = self.multi_head_attention_forward(
-            self.in_balancer(self.in_proj(x)),
+            self.in_proj(x),
             self.linear_pos(pos_emb),
             self.attention_dim,
             self.num_heads,