Thanks for the interest, Synthetic. I suppose that’s the nature of user generated content… If you are looking for testing with statistically significant results, am not sure the ST tri forum is the right place to be fishing. 
Of course, we get frustrated with user reviews at times as well, because we see people post in a “X vs ROKA” thread who haven’t even tried our suits, much less tested them against a modern wetsuit that was developed in the last 3-5 years. So you gotta filter the signal from the noise. But we do appreciate the people that go out of their way to offer feedback, positive or constructive. Everyone has an opinion and that’s what’s great about the forums. In terms of objective testing, we’ve also had many customers (and our own pros) provide test results showing how our suits are faster. We regularly have people tell us that our suits are 2-6 seconds faster per 100 yards than leading competitors. We’ve done our own internal testing and the results are similar. Is it placebo? I don’t think you’d get sustain performance gains, which we see, if that were the case. Also we’re elite swimmers ourselves and can tell the difference between high tech and hype - that’s what got us into the business in the first place.
All that said, you might consider just ordering a suit and trying it for yourself. We stand behind the performance of our suits and offer a 30 day money-back guarantee, even if you’ve swum in them. In fact we encourage you to swim in the suit to make sure it works for you. Free shipping both ways. It’s a pretty riskless transaction and will let you see for yourself what makes our suits different. You can run whatever tests you’d like, and we’d encourage you to post the results.
Note that we’ve given suits to a number of top coaches and media outlets to test/review, but rather than “seeding” the market with reviews before we launched in March, which would probably have been a smart business decision, we actually skipped that and prioritized sending our first batch of inventory to athletes. So you’ll probably have to stand by for a bit for the “industry” feedback since these guys are all very busy and their production/print schedules are set for the season. All of the offline feedback we’ve received has been very positive. Meantime, here are two unsolicited age group triathlete reviews: http://www.paincave.com/news_article/show/260669 and http://jessbartontri.blogspot.com/2013/07/roka-sports-wetsuit-review.html
Would be happy to chat further with you here, by email or by phone if you have specific questions.
Best,
Rob