diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index ea65c9f0..ae29c287 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "run_name": "ljspeech",
-    "run_description": "gradual training with prenet frame size 1. Comparing to memory queue in gradual training. ",
+    "run_description": "gradual training with prenet frame size 1 + no maxout for cbhg + symmetric norm.",
 
     "audio":{
         // Audio processing parameters
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
         "griffin_lim_iters": 60,// #griffin-lim iterations. 30-60 is a good range. Larger the value, slower the generation.
         // Normalization parameters
         "signal_norm": true,    // normalize the spec values in range [0, 1]
-        "symmetric_norm": false, // move normalization to range [-1, 1]
-        "max_norm": 1,          // scale normalization to range [-max_norm, max_norm] or [0, max_norm]
+        "symmetric_norm": true, // move normalization to range [-1, 1]
+        "max_norm": 4,          // scale normalization to range [-max_norm, max_norm] or [0, max_norm]
         "clip_norm": true,      // clip normalized values into the range.
         "mel_fmin": 0.0,         // minimum freq level for mel-spec. ~50 for male and ~95 for female voices. Tune for dataset!!
         "mel_fmax": 8000.0,        // maximum freq level for mel-spec. Tune for dataset!!
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     "dataset": "ljspeech",      // DATASET-RELATED: one of TTS.dataset.preprocessors depending on your target dataset. Use "tts_cache" for pre-computed dataset by extract_features.py
     "min_seq_len": 6,       // DATASET-RELATED: minimum text length to use in training
     "max_seq_len": 150,     // DATASET-RELATED: maximum text length
-    "output_path": "../keep/",      // DATASET-RELATED: output path for all training outputs.
+    "output_path": "/media/erogol/data_ssd/Models/libri_tts/",      // DATASET-RELATED: output path for all training outputs.
     "num_loader_workers": 4,        // number of training data loader processes. Don't set it too big. 4-8 are good values.
     "num_val_loader_workers": 4,    // number of evaluation data loader processes.
     "phoneme_cache_path": "mozilla_us_phonemes",  // phoneme computation is slow, therefore, it caches results in the given folder.
diff --git a/layers/tacotron.py b/layers/tacotron.py
index 474c1646..1cc32a0b 100644
--- a/layers/tacotron.py
+++ b/layers/tacotron.py
@@ -135,9 +135,6 @@ class CBHG(nn.Module):
         ])
         # max pooling of conv bank, with padding
         # TODO: try average pooling OR larger kernel size
-        self.max_pool1d = nn.Sequential(
-            nn.ConstantPad1d([0, 1], value=0),
-            nn.MaxPool1d(kernel_size=2, stride=1, padding=0))
         out_features = [K * conv_bank_features] + conv_projections[:-1]
         activations = [self.relu] * (len(conv_projections) - 1)
         activations += [None]
@@ -186,7 +183,6 @@ class CBHG(nn.Module):
             outs.append(out)
         x = torch.cat(outs, dim=1)
         assert x.size(1) == self.conv_bank_features * len(self.conv1d_banks)
-        x = self.max_pool1d(x)
         for conv1d in self.conv1d_projections:
             x = conv1d(x)
         # (B, T_in, hid_feature)
@@ -387,7 +383,7 @@ class Decoder(nn.Module):
         del decoder_input
         # predict mel vectors from decoder vectors
         output = self.proj_to_mel(decoder_output)
-        output = torch.sigmoid(output)
+        # output = torch.sigmoid(output)
         # predict stop token
         stopnet_input = torch.cat([decoder_output, output], -1)
         del decoder_output
@@ -403,15 +399,15 @@ class Decoder(nn.Module):
             if self.memory_size > self.r:
                 # memory queue size is larger than number of frames per decoder iter
                 self.memory_input = torch.cat([
-                    self.memory_input[:, self.r * self.memory_dim:].clone(), new_memory
+                    new_memory, self.memory_input[:, :(self.memory_size - self.r) * self.memory_dim].clone()
                 ],
                                             dim=-1)
             else:
                 # memory queue size smaller than number of frames per decoder iter
-                self.memory_input = new_memory[:, (self.r - self.memory_size)*self.memory_dim:]
+                self.memory_input = new_memory[:, :self.memory_size * self.memory_dim]
         else:
             # use only the last frame prediction
-            self.memory_input = new_memory[:, (self.r-1) * self.memory_dim:]
+            self.memory_input = new_memory[:, :self.memory_dim]
 
     def forward(self, inputs, memory, mask):
         """
diff --git a/models/tacotron.py b/models/tacotron.py
index 18c74904..bf312db4 100644
--- a/models/tacotron.py
+++ b/models/tacotron.py
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ class Tacotron(nn.Module):
                                forward_attn, trans_agent, forward_attn_mask,
                                location_attn, separate_stopnet)
         self.postnet = PostCBHG(mel_dim)
-        self.last_linear = nn.Sequential(
-            nn.Linear(self.postnet.cbhg.gru_features * 2, linear_dim),
-            nn.Sigmoid())
+        self.last_linear = nn.Linear(self.postnet.cbhg.gru_features * 2, linear_dim)
         
     def forward(self, characters, text_lengths, mel_specs, speaker_ids=None):
         B = characters.size(0)