Conclusion!

Garland,

I don't own a Dreadnougt size guitar, over the years tryed all sizes from Parlour to Jumbo size, well unless you try them you don't know if they are the size for you, a quick play in the shop isn't long enough to really know.
My favourite size guitar is, well actually there are two sizes I really like, that's the Parlour and O.M also known as a 000 or folk size.
I play 98% fingerpicking style (sort of), only play for my own amusement in the armchair, yes life is good.

TonyKgull, It has it's place. For instance, the way I do This Land is Your Land and Amazing Grace. But, I do way more than just those and lean heavily on the low E and it's just too prominent.

Here's something else to consider: it's not just the body size, but the woods and bracing too.

My GA, believe it or not, can easily overpower my dread for the bass notes.  That's because my GA is a Spruce/Rosewood combo whereas my dread is all mahogany.  All mahogany guitars are very well balanced. 

If my dread was a Spruce/Rosewood, I might think the lows are too boomy too.....maybe.  Then again, probably not.  I love all the power of the dread.  lol. ...... But! That doesn't take away from my point!  Ha ha!  That my dread booms way less and is probably better balanced than any other dread I've ever had simply because of the wood and the bracing.

I'm tired of the dread "boom". It has its place, but I prefer a smaller body with a waist for fingerstyle and light strumming.

Garland,RobertW,Derick,TonyKgull,Jim,CTGull,

When it comes to big guitars or little guitars, there isn't a right or wrong answer, it all depends on personal choices, with the only exception been if the guitar is a working tool, for example I have never seen a little acoustic Parlour guitar been played in a rock band, may be you have.
Now if there was such a guitar I wound choose a O.M or Parlour size guitar with a Dreadnougt sound/tone.
Unless it was a Nylon strung guitar, but thats another variable.

Garland,Derick,  You're both totally right.  Just to be clear, I was not touting dreads as the better or right guitar vs other guitars being worse or wrong.  I was just talking about the sound of them specifically relating to the "boomy" description.

And to be fair, I have had one guitar that was a wee bit too big for me so I totally understand the size-for-comfort thing.  My beloved Cole Clark that I had was their version of a dread.  They call them "Fat Ladies".  They call them that because they are actually ever-so-slightly bigger than all other dreads, even though they're still classified as a dread.

I'm not a "big" guy.  I'd say I'm pretty average all around.  5' 11" on a good day (I think I might actually be shrinking!  LOL) and anywhere between 175 and 185 lbs, depending on what I've been doing lately. 

That Cole Clark, as much as I loved it in every way, was more fatiguing to play than a regular dread and I could not play it as long.  I could still play it for over an hour easily. But a regular dread or GA, I can play all day with no fatigue. Those Fat Ladies have a bigger lower bout, which after an hour or so, would tend to tire out my right shoulder/right upper area of my body a bit.