diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/scaling.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/scaling.py
index 40771f95a..8f1c6f2e7 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/scaling.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless2/scaling.py
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ def _test_activation_balancer_sign():
     m = ActivationBalancer(
         channel_dim=0,
         min_positive=0.05,
-        max_positive=0.95,
+        max_positive=0.98,
         max_factor=0.2,
         min_abs=0.0,
     )