hifiengine vinylengine have manuals available
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/onkyo/m-588f.shtml
free membership, then free downloads, limited to a few per day
this may take you to the service manual I downloaded
file:///C:/Users/elliott/Desktop/hfe_onkyo_m-588f_service_en.pdf
perhaps you can find a similar model with meters with explanation of the meters
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