diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
index 7d9ec647e..f35b0e7af 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def add_model_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
     parser.add_argument(
         "--conformer-subsampling-factor",
         type=int,
-        default=1,
+        default=2,
         help="Subsampling factor for 2nd stack of encoder layers.",
     )