I've got all sizes and lots of types, so we will not go into that too much!

The point is this: From a luthier's point of view, it is much harder to make a good small guitar than a good big guitar. There are reasons for this, relating to resonances and the sizes of the plates of the guitar top, which are boring. On the factory scale, if the design is OK it is simple to reproduce, so if the design is optimised for a factory guitar, one should be as good as the other. On the other hand it sometimes happens that a factory guitar can be amazingly good because it has been made a little out of specification. I have personally come across two Washburns, a Guild, a Norman, and a Kay which fall into this category - all dreadnoughts. I have a Seagull Grande which is exceptional as they go, but this is the only case of an exceptional small-bodied guitar I have come across (and it needed a lot of set-up work). Although the most astonishing new guitar I ever met was a Martin 00-25K, I would say that for the complete ignoramus, trying to buy a new guitar without help, buying a dreadnaught is safer than buying a small guitar - and more likely to result in the possible purchase of something better than average.