This prevents overflows and audible artefacts for the audio files which
originally had loudness maximized. Music from audio CD disks is an
example of such files, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Buffer position in X array was not always 16-bytes aligned.
Strict 16-byte alignment is strictly required for powerpc altivec
simd optimizations because altivec does not have support for
unaligned vector loads at all.
