Woofie,
I must admit that I find your fasination with this whole thing intreaging. I know your not knocking them, curiousity is human trait.
If I told you we had 15 development engineers, full spectrum analyasis and custom self constructed test rigs, 2 dedicated labs and a budget of £250K, and an army of DBT er's would that ease your concience?
We use tried and tested methods, whilst combining new ideas and reasearch. we have a staff of 4, and a listen panel of 25+ (real world)
I'm going to say this bit again, we have of 20 gig's of reaserch, into cable manifestations Ok, I could select 8 cables (from the public domain, know to us & not just ours either, all there standard measurable parameters, measure as close as if measuarably possible, yet they do all have a different sonic characteristics. (have they other measureable traits that differenicate this well???, $64K question)
Don't confuse my posting style, and ability 
Omiga Audio is subsidurery of a larger digital systems intergration and reasearch company specialising in mil spec and areospace projects, we have more 'relevent & unique test equipment about the place business than you can shake a large stick at, does that mean wow, great amazing . NO what it means is we have the ability to look seriously indepth at products we may have developed than a lot of business in the same field.
We're not science rewriters, we just look at things in a different light, nothing more.
A lot of ideas and practices come from the world of aerospace (as does a fair few other companies)
My own peronal field is areospace engineering & material compositions and stress evaluations for flight testing, mainly under carriage and electro-mechanical hydraulic flight systems (Bsc Eng (hons) Class of 88), the rest of the guys are mainly HUD & flight intergration systems in mil-planes. Automotive calibration & intergration process systems and bespoke software applications.
All of that means what?, I could write anything true, however there is an awful lot of experiance and knowledge here in relation to digital systems and signal transfer & control software.
Woolfie, if you wish to experiance this first hand, then we'd be happy to give you a tour
Wm